IT Home reported on January 9 that Volkswagen showed a facelifted model of the Golf GTI at CES 2024, but the vehicle was specially camouflaged, making it difficult to see the changes in its appearance. However, the engineers seem to have forgotten to remove the picture of the car from the infotainment system, allowing the new car to be revealed.
Judging by the pictures, the new car looks sportier overall, with redesigned headlights that are more slimmer, the part near the light bar has become more elongated, and the light bar itself is split in two by a glowing logo. The iconic red trim remains, stretching from one headlight to the other.
2025 款高尔夫 GTI
2024 款高尔夫 GTI
The front bumper of the new car has also been slightly redesigned, although the honeycomb pattern and the five LED lights that form the letter "X" have been retained. Since the black part of the bumper now extends to the area below the Volkswagen badge, the whole "mouth" looks larger.
The "fangs" that extend upwards to the center of the air intake are also eye-catching, the alloy wheels also look new, and the rest of the body side looks the same as the current model.
At the rear, Volkswagen seems to have made a small update to the graphics of the taillights, while maintaining the same shape and size, and the rear bumper looks the same.
The interior of the new car will also remain largely the same, but the center console has been upgraded, with two sizes of 12.9 and 15 inches, and it is made of OLED material, and some physical buttons are still retained underneath, and the physical buttons on the steering wheel are officially back.
It is worth mentioning that Volkswagen said that all Volkswagen models equipped with IDA voice assistants in the future will be able to use voice assistants integrated with ChatGPT. Powered by Cerence Chat Pro, this technology will provide services that go beyond traditional voice control. Users don't need to create a new account or install a new app, they can simply say "Hello IDA" through their voice assistant or press a button on the steering wheel to activate. When IDA is activated, the system prioritizes whether a vehicle function needs to be performed, a destination search, or the temperature inside the vehicle needs to be adjusted based on the user's needs. For non-functional commands, the system will automatically transfer ChatGPT to "chat". Regarding information security, ChatGPT does not access vehicle data, and users' questions and answers are immediately deleted to ensure data security.
At present, the power information of the new car has not been announced, and the new car will make its debut in the coming weeks, and IT Home will keep an eye on it.