Volkswagen South Africa is ready to launch some hot product in 2022. Here’s what you can expect from SA’s best-selling passenger car brand.

Q1 2022

Polo facelift and Polo GTI

The Polo is the heart of the passenger car market locally. It spawned the Polo Vivo and together they are assembled locally for the export market as well as local consumption.

Visually, you’ll be able to spot the newcomer with its revised design. There’s a new front end, complete with redesigned headlights featuring LED technology, like the lightbar that stretches inwards from the lights to the badge. The rear gets a completely new look too.

Read more: 2022 Volkswagen Polo Engines and Trim Confirmed for SA

Read more: New Volkswagen Polo: Coming to SA in early 2022

New Caddy

The Caddy is built on Volkswagen’s highly scalable MQB platform and rather than re-designing the wheel for its new Caddy, Volkswagen’s design approach is more evolutionary. The face of the new Caddy and the grille in particular is much slimmer than before with newly-designed LED headlights and a honeycomb mesh design for the lower grille completing the front-end design.

Read more: New Volkswagen Caddy heading to SA

Q2 2022

Golf 8 R

The newcomer – officially the fastest, most powerful series-production Golf to date – is powered by a 235 kW/420 Nm “Evo 4” 2.0-litre 4-cylinder turbopetrol and is said to sprint from 0 to 100 kph in 4.7 sec courtesy of its revised Haldex-type all-wheel-drive system.

Read more: Golf 8 R revealed with 235 kW, optional drift mode

Tiguan R

As the demand for performance SUVs continues to grow, Volkswagen has bolted all of its R department’s go faster bits to its facelifted family car – the Tiguan. Has the overhaul gone awry, or is it just the right amount of crazy for your compact people-carrier?

Read more: VW Tiguan R International Launch Review

Tiguan Allspace Facelift

The Tiguan is VW’s best-selling car globally, a very important model to say the least. The Allspace variant carries 2 more passengers in the rear, allowing both your kids to now bring friends on holiday if that’s your scene.

Read more: Updated Tiguan Allspace revealed

New Taigo

The Spanish-built VW Taigo is based on the Brazil-built VW Nivus and differentiates itself from Volkswagen’s T-Cross with a stylish coupe-like silhouette. It stands 4 600 mm long, 1 700 mm wide and 1 490 mm tall with a wheelbase of 2 566 mm.

Read more: New Taigo – T-Cross Coupe coming to SA

T-Roc facelift

This latest round of updates has come quite quickly in the product’s lifecycle, with just two years separating its official reveal back at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, but given Volkswagen rationalisation and streamlining of its portfolio, it should not come as much of a surprise.

Read more: VW T-Roc updated for 2022

Q4 2022

New Polo Sedan

Volkswagen has released design sketches for a new compact sedan. The global market for 4-door vehicles with a boot might be shrinking, but there are places where people still prefer the sedan configuration.

Read more: VW Previews new Polo Sedan

Special mention

Amarok

VW SA will confirm the arrival of the new Amarok early in the new year, but expect it to follow the launch of the Ford Ranger quite closely. If you haven’t yet seen what the Ranger looks like read our story here. It’s important as the new Amarok will be built in SA by Ford SA in Pretoria and closely based on said Ranger.