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All new VW Golf estate is bigger, more stylish, and has rock bottom company car tax

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4 July 2013

The Volkswagen Golf estate
Golf estates have sometimes felt like an afterthought – not so the new one

VOLKSWAGEN has opened UK order books for the new VW Golf estate. Prices start at £17,915, a premium of £765 compared with equivalent hatchback models.

This latest estate looks set to play a much more important role in the Golf range than its predecessors.

Previous estates have been introduced much later in the model cycle of the underlying hatch and haven’t always offered a full spread of engines and equipment.

This one provides buyers with almost as much choice as the hatch, with one exception – Volkswagen is unlikely to offer a Golf GTI estate to take on Ford’s Focus ST load-lugger.

A separate fuel-saving BlueMotion model with a 110PS 1.6-litre diesel engine will also go on sale before the end of the year.

VW Golf Estate
Business users will appreciate the improved load space

That one delivers a very business friendly 85.6mpg and has a company car tax rate of 13 percent – about as low as it gets for a diesel.

The latest VW Golf estate is also bigger than before, offering a very generous 605 litres of load-space even with the rear seats in place, and Volkswagen has decided to inject a bit of style too, lifting this car above the rather basic, boxy looks of previous Golf estates.

Trim levels and engine options closely follow the pattern established by the recently-introduced hatches.

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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