Have you seen the Golf Sportsvan at the Frankfurt show?

I was interested because my Golf Plus was really good but as it was a bit out of date, I preferred the Yeti which I bought. I love it.

Style looks good and the advanced platform will be an improvement.

What do you think?

this the one?

 

http://wot.motortrend.com/volkswagen-golf-sportsvan-concept-like-a-golf-minivan-402887.html#axzz2eWQ1knDC

 

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/VW-Golf-Sportsvan-concept-2013-MPV-Golf-revealed-at-the-Frankfurt-motor-show/

Yep, that's the one.......

Have you seen the Golf Sportsvan at the Frankfurt show?

I was interested because my Golf Plus was really good but as it was a bit out of date, I preferred the Yeti which I bought. I love it.

Style looks good and the advanced platform will be an improvement.

What do you think?

Looks good for someone in the market for a Golf+/medium estate replacement but I wouldn't be losing sleep if I'd just bought a Yeti that's for sure! A similarly specced (to an Elegance Yeti) Golf "Sportswagon" is gonna cost a shedload more money (26k if you "option up" a standard Golf, plus maybe add £500-600 for the larger "Sportswagon".

It's a small Estate car, whereas the Yeti is a SUV with off-road capability.

Not a competitor in my mind.

 

And it'll be a lot more expensive!!

SUV , 'Suburban utility vehicle',  in various sizes from medium to huge,

then as they came to Europe, tiny to large

For carrying people & their luggage or chattels with space & versatility of seating & load carrying.

If you go to hire a 5 seat SUV or Sports van.

It is Important that the Luggage space is big enough to carry all the luggage for 4-5 adults going to an airport if the vehicle seats 5 adults.

 

 Now the US of A has had Sportsvans/Minivans for long enough, carries people and luggage with a degree of room.

The one in the Article looks perfect for that job. ie Another Small People Carrier. Maybe carry a Families luggage but not 5 adults and their holiday cases.

So Like a Ford S-Max. Just like a Family car really.

 

Volkswagen Audi Group seem to use Names & Terms for vehicles in loose terms that does not always seem to translate or mean the same in different languages.

They recycle Terms and names for vehicles, the Concept 'Golf Sportsvan' seems to be what was and still is a 'Medium size People Carrier.'

 

george

It looks like a Golf version of the Ford C-Max to me.

 

So it's just an estate car -come- 5 seat MPV.

But it's not a van....

But it's not a van....

 

 

... or that sporty probably.

Not sure why you wouldn't consider it to be a competitor to a 2wd Yeti, functionally, with the single exception of ground clearance. Higher seating position, excellent headroom (just like the Yeti) and flexible rear space with some worthwhile load-carrying capacity. Less obviously van-like than the Yeti but other than that it would do pretty much the same job for an owner, provided (as a 2wd) you didn't intend to venture very far offroad.

Pricing, as ever, is a discriminator between brands, certainly. Downside for me would be that they don't seem to intend to fit the new Plus with any of the more powerful (ie >140/148bhp) engines (not that VWUK ever imported them previously, anyway).

I wouldn't consider it at all as a 2WD Yeti competitor.

One of the main attractions of the Yeti for me is its compactness.

The Sportvan is higher than a Golf,83 mm longer and 80 mm wider.

It's HUGE.

What would stop it being a competitor to consider if you were looking at a buying a 2wd Yeti might be the Purchase Price,

which might well be another 50% over the Yeti if not more.

 

george

What would stop it being a competitor to consider if you were looking at a buying a 2wd Yeti might be the Purchase Price, which might well be another 50% over the Yeti if not more.

Of course, but that's a separate meaning of 'competitor' - vehicles can obviously compete on all sorts of grounds - appeal, functionality, performance, price etc.

But there are large numbers of people who are both able and willing to spend more on a car if they choose to do so, otherwise there'd be few Audi/BMW/Jaguar/Landrover etc vehicles sold. But just because you can spend more doesn't mean that you'll necessarily decide to do so. So for anyone contemplating say a Golf Plus or Evoque purchase, then they might perfectly reasonably also consider a Yeti.

Sports = fail

Van = fail      

Sports = fail

Van = fail      

Quote; quite.

Anyway I thought SUV stood for Souped-up van?

prodata, totally agree,

but that is not competitors really is it, its just choices,  every car available is a competitor, you look and need something and buy totally different. They all are designed one way or another to attract, appeal or meet the needs you think you have or want to project to others.

the world is full of choices, you make your choices based on what ever.

(& maybe your other half confirms its wrong and you are better with the choice they will help you make.)

 

I do wish they would get on and build the 'Micro Bus', and get it on the market,

as a direct competitor with a Citigo.

Mini 'MPV', Weekend Camper, Day Van etc.

 

george

It's a small Estate car

 

It's a tall hatchback.

But it's not a van....

 

 

... or that sporty probably.

 

Just a Golf then!

The back end looks like it doesn't belong to the rest of the car, or is that just me?

I suspect the first 80% of the shape could have carried a longer rear and looked much better.

An interesting looking medium size station-wagon or a hatchback, I'm not sure which it is. From the side it slightly reminds me of a Honda Jazz.

It's a hatchback.

Lets be honest - it brings nothing new to the table. It's a less awful looking, re-platformed Golf Plus with sport in the name to fool simpletons into thinking it's less targeted at geriatrics. That's it.

SUV = Sports Utility Vehicle.

IMO it's a tarted up Golf Plus. A Golf Plus Plus if you like. Two positives = a negative More likely it's a competitor for the newer A or B class Mercys.

It's a tall hatchback.

Just like the Yeti then (at least in 2wd format).