√2024 Volkswagen Golf facelift spied with large infotainment screen

The first spy photos of the Golf’s mid-life facelift have arrived, confirming the model will double down on touch-sensitive controls.

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf has begun testing its mid-life changes ahead of its unveiling next year.

Volkswagen engineers were caught on camera driving the updated Golf in Europe, with images clearly showing a much larger infotainment screen mounted in the centre of the dashboard.

As reported in August 2022, rumours out of Germany suggest the model will ditch its dual 10-inch screens – used for infotainment duties and the driver’s digital instrument cluster – in favour of 12.9-inch and 10.4-inch screens respectively.

Despite some criticisms, it appears Volkswagen will continue to integrate control of the car’s climate system within the screen settings, with multi-zone temperature buttons accessible below the screen, as in the current model.

Though this is the first evidence of the mid-life update, the new screens look to have been retrofitted to the current Golf for the sake of testing (rather than being a pre-production prototype), meaning there are no other interior or exterior differences with this particular car.

While the larger screens aren’t yet locked in for the Australian market, Drive understands the mid-life updates are due on our shores in 2024, likely in the first half of the year.

In arguably the most exciting change to the line-up in years, Australia may also be in line to receive the Golf GTE plug-in hybrid when the ‘Mk8.5’ update is introduced here, with reports suggesting the model could offer up to 100 kilometres of electric driving range thanks to an updated powertrain.

The 2024 Volkswagen Golf 8.5 is expected to be shown in the second half of 2023, ahead of a local launch the following year.

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