{"id":20363,"date":"2025-09-14T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20363\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:20:08","slug":"does-the-vw-golf-gtx-the-electric-version-of-the-gti-match-up-to-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/20363\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the\u00a0VW Golf GTX \u2013 the electric version of the GTI \u2013\u00a0match up to the original?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIt\u2019s fast, efficient and refined, but does it feel like a hot hatch and has this road star translated well into the battery era?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test drives the VW ID.3 GTX in the Kings Red Metallic colour (it also comes in grey, white, silver and black). Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MGgeraldine3 (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test drives the VW ID.3 GTX in the Kings Red Metallic colour (it also comes in grey, white, silver and black). Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the hot hatch hall of fame, the VW Golf GTI is the Mona Lisa: endlessly copied, never bettered, and somehow still smirking after eight generations. Others may have invented the genre, but Volkswagen was the one that convinced the masses. The plan to bin the GTI badge in favour of the GTX badge has been shelved, but there is certainly an appetite for a GTI equivalent in electric form. Our test car this week, the VW ID.3 GTX, sets out to be exactly that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The GTX Performance Plus wears GTX bumpers front and rear while at the side, you\u2019ll spot 20-inch Skagen alloy wheels, black mirror caps and discreet GTX badging. Round the back there\u2019s a gloss black diffuser and animated LED lights. At 4.26m long with a tallish stance, the GTX looks more \u201cupright family hatch\u201d than crouching GTI predator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s fast, efficient and refined, but does it feel like a hot hatch and has this road star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,7781,61,60,6361,15467],"class_list":{"0":"post-20363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-geraldine-herbert","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-volkswagen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}