GOLF GTi testing in Pune

German car maker Volkswagen is planning to introduce its next compact car in the India market. Volkswagen has already announced that it will introduce a new Golf variant in the international market by 2012 and the car has been previewed at various international auto shows. Volkswagen has also announced that it will introduce an electric variant of VW Golf in the Indian market by 2013 but has not made any formal statement about petrol/diesel model of the car in the Indian market.

The latest spy shots were taken in Pune where the car was caught testing. The car is expected to be priced at Rs. 9 lakh and above but to ascertain actual price of the car right now is quite difficult.

Volkswagen launched a new variant of its luxury sedan Passat last month in the market. It has adopted top down approach of market for India and has launched premium models like Beetle, Passat and Jetta followed by its latest small car model VW Polo.

Source: Indian Autos 

Nice Pics Centaur

none of them clicked by me. all from the source.

Thats not a GTi.

Possible. Since its been a habit to call it a GTi i mentioned that by mistake. By the way what makes you say that? The right side badge is unclear in the pic

When you see GTis on a regular basis you can make out the difference between a regular Golf 2.0 and the GTi immediately, without looking for specific points of difference.

However, since you ask:

1.  There is no right side badge on a GTi

2.  The left side badge says 2.0

3.  Where are the twin exhausts?

4.  The bumper is a regular Golfie bumper.

Here are some GTi rears:

that was informative Mr Menon. Maybe its a TDi. Except for the dual exhausts remaining all of them seem to be cosmetic changes and i dont see any difference in the bumper actually. Is it not possible that VW had deliberately made these changes between the European and Indian versions of Golf? Do not take these offensively. I am just clearing up my doubts.

Hello All..

Sorry being a bit off track from thread.. Recently i saw a test polo with a TDI badge on the tailgate. Polo is testing the TDI engine on Mumbai-banglore highway near it's talegaon plant.. I think it was a 1.2 lt motor. I was not able to see in depth but assuming it..

As Mr Menon said for Golf the POLO TDI only has the TDI badge and Polo emblem at back.

Will keep posting with more details..

Then it would be a GTD, same rules on the badging.

For starters, check the number plate surround on both - in the GTi/GTD the outward slope on the sides face down and the lower part is not surrounded.  On regular models, the numberplate is inset (surrounded on all sides) with the outward slopes on the sides facing UP (like in the pictures on Post 1).

Then there are the lower sills.