Volkswagen Golf Black Edition Looks Sinister, Is Already Ready To Order

The Golf Black Edition sits between the R-Line and the GTE versions but comes with extra features. The Germans mention extra style, performance, and exclusivity. But, of course, it is also about extra money, because it starts way above your regular Golf.

It rides on 18-inch black Bergamo alloy wheels, which are available for any other Golf in the UK, which doesn’t exactly make it that space. It also gets the Winter Pack, rear-view camera and – now exclusivity comes in – a Black Style Package.

This translates into an illuminated strip stretching between the headlights, recessed and illuminated door handles, black exterior mirror housing, and LED Plus headlights. Just like in the R Line trim, it gets body-colored bumpers.

There are sports seats in the front, there is tinted glass in the rear, and there is interior ambient lighting with 30 color options, but Volkswagen does not offer any glimpse of the cabin of the new Golf Black Edition.

There are three available powertrains that customers can get their Golf Black Edition with: the 1.5 TSI with 148 horsepower (150 PS) and a six-speed manual, the 1.5 eTSI, which features mild-hybrid tech and the same horsepower, but is connected to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, plus the 2.0 TSI with 187 horsepower (190 horsepower), the DSG auto box and the 4Motion all-wheel drive, a setup combo exclusive to the Golf Black Edition.

Available in the United Kingdom only, the Volkswagen Black Edition starts at 31,985 pounds (VAT included), the equivalent of $39,969 at the current exchange rate. The extra features would go as far as 2,900 pounds ($3,623). But Volkswagen adds just 1,500 pounds ($1,874) to the price. The special edition is already available for order. Customers can put in a 2,000-pound deposit contribution and a 6.9% personal contract plan (PCP) from Volkswagen Financial Services.

The Germans seem very much into the Golf right now. Only recently, they unveiled the Golf GTI 380 in the United States as a swan song for the manual transmission (see photo gallery). It is available with all the trims in the lineup (S, SE, and Autobahn), but with a single engine: the 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 241 horsepower (244 PS) and 273 lb-ft (370 Nm) of torque.

Last week, Volkswagen unveiled the ID. GTI Concept, which is basically an electric Golf, at the IAA Mobility in Munich. One week before the ID. GTI Concept dropped, the Germans were teasing a special version with a video of a real rabbit uploaded on former Twitter/current X. The first-gen Golf in the United States was called the Rabbit.