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There are first drives and there are preview drives, and this is definitely the latter. The new, seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf, which is just now being launched in Europe, won't be arriving in North America until the spring of 2014, likely as a 2015 model. The model year -- like a lot of other things about our version of the new Golf -- hasn't been decided yet, but we got a hint of what is to come with an early drive of the European version.