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1992 Golf Cabrio: MPG: 28 city/ 32 highway HP: 110 0-60: 9.5 secs Length: 153" Weight: 2193 lbs 2017 Golf Cabrio: MPG: 25 city/36 highway HP: 170 0-60:

1992 Golf Cabrio: MPG: 28 city/ 32 highway HP: 110 0-60: 9.5 secs Length: 153" Weight: 2193 lbs 2017 Golf Cabrio: MPG: 25 city/36 highway HP: 170 0-60: 6.6 secs Length: 167" Weight: 3,000 lbs Over the last 25 years the VW Golf has gotten almost 50% larger, is far safer, far more comfortable, far faster, and has basically identical gas mileage.

evanlivingston 9y ago
This is one of the points of confusion for me. I didn't buy a cabriolet to take kids to and from school, to haul gear around or to beat some other kid in muscle car off the line. Increased safety is a nice, but bigger? faster? I would trade speed any day for better mileage. But apparently better mpg is less of a demand than bigger and faster.