The original hot hatch to go without a manual transmission in future

Volkswagen Australia has sensationally consigned the manual gearbox to history in its performance models, ruling out future ‘stick’ versions of the venerable Golf GTI and Golf R hot hatches.

The reason? No-one is buying them.

Speaking with carsales.com.au at this month’s launch of the Golf R Special Edition, equipped solely with the firm’s seven-speed wet-clutch DSG automatic transmission, Volkswagen Australia product marketing manager Jeff Shafer said performance variants of the upcoming Mk8 Golf would not be available with manual transmission either.
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