The VW Citi Golf...

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... will not be produced anymore. Production stops on Friday.
 
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http://www.financialmail.co.za/09/0807/fox/gfox.htm


Volkswagen SA will stop building the CitiGolf next year, says MD David Powels. He denies reports that production of the car, which has been built at the company's Uitenhage assembly plant in the Eastern Cape, for over 30 years, has already halted.

"The CitiGolf is certainly coming to the end of its lifecycle," says Powels. "I'm not prepared to say exactly when we will stop building it, but its replacement will arrive in 2010." VW dealers are still selling about 1 000 CitiGolfs each month.


The Citi was the original Golf. The latest version, Golf VI, is imported into SA. This is the only country where the Citi is still built. It is one of two cars produced in Uitenhage. The other is the Polo, both for the domestic and export markets. VWSA has not identified the Citi's replacement but its German parent has embarked on a number of small-car projects in recent years, including an emerging-market car aimed initially at India, and a range called the VW Up.


VWSA has spent R3,5bn in the past 18 months to modernise its Uitenhage plant and realign its product manufacturing strategy. Two years after launching its own truck and bus assembly facility with black economic empowerment partners, the company has shut it down. VW vehicles will now be built in Durban by MAN.
 
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Awesome news. At bloody last! The Gol is like a small Polo.
 
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Will be interested to see the pricing of the Gol when it gets here
 
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I can't beleive people still buy a car that was basically designed 30 years ago!!!
 
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Smooth Criminal said:
What value for money are you talking about? Air bags? Power steering? Aircon?
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Its a cheap and reliable car, for air bags/power steering/aircon and such you should rather get a polo.

In my eyes the golf is just VW's entry level car
 
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hj2k_x said:
Street cred :cool:
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Can't say that I know of anybody who thinks that a Citi is cool, apart from the owners themselves :p
blaaislaai said:
Its a cheap and reliable car, for air bags/power steering/aircon and such you should rather get a polo.

In my eyes the golf is just VW's entry level car
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Yeah I see what you're saying:
Citi Golf CitiRox 1.4i Hatch R102,400.00
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Standard feature: Central locking

Verrrrrry affordable and good value for what you're paying :/
 
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the new 2009 model? obviously way more expensive! Though I have seen it for less than 100k
 
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blaaislaai said:
the new 2009 model? obviously way more expensive! Though I have seen it for less than 100k
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Yeah Citi's are no longer cheap when a 1.4 goes for over R100k ;) They start at just over R90k for the base models, and you pay more for the purely cosmetic upgrades of the higher models. There's nothing added in terms of specification.

Paying in a little bit more can get you a Yaris or any other small Japanese car. They're not only well equipped, but when it comes to reliability they're bulletproof.
 
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Yaris are slow. They can't go up hills. There are many hills in CT.
 
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Wasn't it the Yaris which had the seatbelt problem? a year or 2 ago?
Think it was only applicable in Japan or China
 
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