Golf scoops Caravan Club's Towcar of the Year Award

Towcar of the year 2010 Overall Winner
is the VW Golf SE 2.0 TDi

The Volkswagen Golf has scooped the Caravan Club's Towcar of the Year Award, seeing off tough competition from executive saloons and some of the most sophisticated 4x4s in the market.
 
The Golf 2.0 TDI SE took the £16,000 – £20,000 category and went on to win the overall title in a field of 28 contenders from leading manufacturers such as Land Rover, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo.

                                   

The new Golf continues the trend towards more affordable, less thirsty towcars. It’s the third consecutive year in which a two-wheel-drive car has emerged on top – following victories by the Skoda Superb last year and the Ford Mondeo in 2007.

Conducted at the Millbrook Test Facility in Bedfordshire over three intensive days of evaluation, the Towcar of the Year awards use two separate panels of judges and put each of the contenders through a rigorous test regime.

Four ‘caravanability’ judges examined each vehicle’s practicality as a towcar, together with its load capacity, before six driving judges took to the track to put the cars through their paces with appropriately matched tourers.

Each driving judge completed a demanding route around Millbrook’s hill circuit including two hill starts, an emergency stop and some challenging bends designed to test each car to the limit.

So if you are a caravanning enthusiast, why not consider the new Golf, it will not let you down when you head away for a long weekend!