First VW Golf Prototypes Roll Off the Line in Puebla
Last month, Volkswagen’s assembly plant in Puebla produced the first four pre-production prototypes of the VW Golf, with mass production scheduled to begin in the first week of May next year.
The German automaker announced this in its monthly report on production and exports, which automotive companies based in Mexico share with INEGI.
This milestone comes just over a year after the company formally announced the decision to bring production of the iconic hatchback back from Germany to the San Juan Cuautlancingo complex in Puebla, where the model’s production program was based from its inception in the 1970s until 2021.
Although as early as last July, social media accounts were already reporting the presence of some Golfs during test drives on the streets of Puebla, employees of the automaker itself clarified that these were units manufactured in Germany that were undergoing regulatory approval processes.
According to a report by El Sol de Puebla, the traditional version of the eighth-generation Golf, known as the A8, will begin rolling off the assembly line during week 18 of next year—that is, between May 3 and 9— while the Golf Variant A8—or the “sport wagon” version—will roll off the line in week 43, between October 25 and 31.
The program, which was made available to the local press, indicates that Volkswagen de México plans to assemble 411,227 vehicles in 2027, of which 67,681 units would be the new Golf in its two versions, representing 16.45% of the projected volume.
The schedule projects a decline in production of the other three models currently manufactured at that plant as follows: a 9.5% decrease in Jetta production, a 3% decrease in Tiguan production, and a 1.5% decrease in Taos production, compared to the 2026 total.
Jetta production would drop from 83,848 units in 2026 to 75,867 in 2027; Tiguan production from 171,698 to 166,577 units, and production of the Taos compact SUV from 102,688 to 101,112 units, according to the Puebla-based media outlet.
