Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen Tires
The long-running Volkswagen Golf is also available with a stretched wheelbase and wagon body, offering extra room and versatility along with the Golf’s performance and precise handling. The longroof Golf gives you the extra room and practicality of an SUV or crossover with the refinement and style of the Golf hatchback. That includes a state-of-the-art infotainment system, smartphone connectivity, and a full driver assistance suite that includes blind spot monitoring, navigation, interactive cruise control, lane departure alerts, VW’s CarNet Security & Service, and much more. The Golf Sportwagen shares its DNA with the Golf 5-door but with a lot more cargo room and the Jetta’s 147 horsepower turbo 1.4L 4-cylinder engine. The Sportwagen S 4Motion model is available with a 1.8L 4-cylinder for 168 hp and your choice of 6-speed manual or 6-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. The Golf Sportwagen is rated at 29 mpg city-37 mpg highway-32 mpg combined.
Here at FORTLUFT, our team has gone through and rounded up some of the best tire options for your Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen, including all-season, all-weather, and winter tires, then ranked them in Best-Great-Good order. We then used our SimpleScore system to assign numerical values to each one for handling, longevity, and traction. Ready? Let’s go ahead and get started here:
1. Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus: Best All-Season tire
Let’s kick off this list with the Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus. For decades, drivers have loved Pirelli tires for their great balance of engineering, quality, and value. It’s a tall order, but the P4 Persist AS Plus does a great job of living up to the Pirelli heritage of performance and innovation. It’s a tire you can rely on to deliver versatile year-round traction along with the long wear, refined ride, responsive handling, and low noise that are more along the lines of a Grand Touring tire. The Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus has a low rolling resistance design that saves on fuel costs over the li