Test Drive: 2015 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagon - Autos.ca
It started back in 2001, soon after landing this gig as an automotive journalist helped me realize that my brand-new Nissan Sentra wasn’t quite the mini-Maxima I thought it would be. That our first “family car” immediately followed a Nissan 240SX... I know it’s just so auto-journalist of me to be driving a diesel wagon with a manual gearbox, but there it is. This summer I spent the week with the new, seventh-generation Golf Sportwagon. Much praise has been heaped on the new Golf: North American Car of the Year, AJAC best new small car over $21K, Motor Trend Car of the Year, and Motoring TV Car of the Year, just to name a few. Our tester is not an apples-to-apples comparison with our own car, however. Both cars are the Highline trim, but rather than the diesel/manual combo that we have, VW sent us what is sure to be a higher-volume spec: the direct-shift automatic paired with VW’s new 1. 8L turbocharged gasser. VW likes to play with names for this car. While ours is known as the Golf Wagon, the same car was being sold in the US under the name “Jetta Sportwagen”. Source: www.autos.ca
