Volkswagen Golf MK7 20132016... SHOULD YOU BUY ONE??

Jonathan Crouch writes an indepth Volkswagen Golf MK7 20132016 review. If you want to watch more reviews on vehicles like this Volkswagen Golf MK7 20132016, make sure to SUBSCRIBE to our channel and comment what YOU want us to review next.

Volkswagen's Golf is the family hatchback against which all others are judged and never more so than in this lighter, larger, quieter and more efficient seventh generation guise, where it proved to be cleverer and more usable than ever before. If you're shopping for a secondhand example, you might be asking yourself why you should buy one. But perhaps the more pertinent question is whether there's really any reason why you shouldn't.

History
Volkswagen's modern era 'Peoples' Car', the Golf family hatchback, has been bought by an awful lot of people. Launched back in 1974 to replace the iconic Beetle, it was the car that saved the company through 29 million sales and six generations that by 2013, brought us to this MK7 model.
At launch, this was the first truly new Golf we'd seen since just after the turn of the century, the previous sixth generation version having been merely a light reskin of the old MK5 model. And it arrived at a time when the marque needed to step up its game. Volkswagen's inhouse Skoda and SEAT brands were offering Golf technology for less, the South Korean competition was improving and more familiar mainstream family hatch rivals were adding premium quality and technology that, in the words of their marketeers, made them 'more Golflike'.
But, as Volkswagen has always argued, there's no substitute for the definitive article and this, we're told, is exactly it. Stiffer, plusher, safer, smarter, more efficient and highertech than its predecessor, the MK7 Golf model's goals lay far beyond simply being better than a Focus or an Astra. This car aimed to move above that, aspiring to appeal to buyers who might be considering premiumbadged compact hatches from brands like BMW, Audi or Mercedes. Not everyone bought into that and predictably, throughout its lifetime, the Golf MK7 sold to people who wanted a nicer version of something Focus or Astrasized. Volkswagen substantially upgraded this design in early 2017, but it's the original version of this generation model that we evaluate here as a secondhand buy.

Writer Jonathan Crouch

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