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The prices and timing of latest emissions rules might annihilate affairs for a next-generation Volkswagen Golf, due in 2027.

There is probably not addition Volkswagen Golf – one in all Europe’s acknowledged vehicles – if new emissions rules show too big-ticket to satisfy, too quickly.

Chatting with German commercial Welt, new Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schafer mentioned a lodging will probably be fabricated on whether or not to advance a ninth-generation Golf aural the abutting 12 months.

“We’ll settle for to see whether or not it’s account creating a brand new agent that doesn’t aftermost the abounding seven or eight years [before emissions regulations force a about-face to electric power],” mentioned Schafer.

Growing a automobile with a abbreviate lifespan is “extraordinarily costly”, the controlling mentioned, including: “We’ll apperceive added in twelve months.”

The accepted Volkswagen ‘Golf 8’ launched in Europe on the finish of 2019, afore meeting ramped up in 2020 – so if Schafer’s acceptable seven to eight-year exercise aeon is adopted, the Golf 9 is just not due in European showrooms