It's Official: The VW Up GTI Is Happening
Thanks to a bunch of rumours from earlier in the year, we’ve been fairly sure that VW is in the process of making a hotter Up. Now, we at have official confirmation from VW, via Autocar.
Given the drought of dinky warm hatches we’ve had in recent years, we’ll heartily say hell yeah to that news. So what will it be like?
A prototype exists with a 104bhp version of VW’s turbocharged inline-three petrol engine, although the production version will have 114bhp. Not a huge figure, but enough to make the lightweight Up a jolly entertaining steer. The prototype features a five-speed manual gearbox, but it’s possible that VW will offer the production car with both that and a seven-speed DSG automatic.
The suspension will be heavily revised, with the Up sitting lower on stiffer springs and fettled dampers. It’ll receive a sportified GTI makeover on the outside, and - hopefully - lashings of tartan on the inside.
The downside? It won’t be here until 2018. So, the Abarth 595 is safe for now…
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We’ve all been waiting for… what???
114 hp is not that much! But hopefully there are some tuners who can fix that problem :)
How about an Up! R as well?
I know I’m spoilt
I will buy the GTI but keep my Wheels
I never really looked into the engine choices for the regular Up! but I’m surprised there is no 4-cylinder already in the lineup. A 1.4 TSI would be so much better for this cute beast, but I suppose it wouldn’t fit and VW can’t Up the 1.0 power too much
Here on Brazil he already exists!!
It’s called Up Speed TSI and his engine it’s an 1.0 litre also turbocharged, combined with the 5-speed manual gearbox.
Figures bellow:
-105 bhp.
-16,8 kgfm at 1.500 rpm.
And sadly it ain’t gonna come to Argentina like the Jetta/Bora T-FSI
Maybe it’ll have two exclamation marks on it’s badge instead of just the one!
I found my first car…
They should put a 6 speed gearbox in it. I have a 75 hp Up! in family and the gears are sooo long. I guess they are made so with economy in mind. But a short gears gearbox would be awesome!
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