Volkswagen joined the growing list of automakers offering all-electric cars with the debut of the e-Golf last year. Based on the Golf four-door hatchback, the e-Golf has an EPA-estimated range of 83 miles. The Volkswagen Golf is available as a two- or four-door hatchback, or as a wagon. Power comes from a gas or diesel four-cylinder engine, and the five-seat Golf competes with the Mazda3 hatchback, Hyundai Elantra GT and Mini Cooper. Volkswagen’s performance-oriented Golf GTI and Golf R are related, as is the e-Golf electric car. A newly available multimedia system supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone mirroring on the car’s dashboard screen. The S trim level gains a backup camera while the SE adds keyless access with push-button start. A Driver Assistance Package for SE and SEL trim levels includes adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning with autonomous braking, lane departure warning, a blind spot warning system with rear cross-traffic alert, and automated parallel and perpendicular parking. The Volkswagen GTI is a high-performance sibling of the Golf. It comes as a two- or four-door hatchback and has room for five people. The Golf R is a range-topping performance hatchback based on the Golf and Golf GTI. It competes with the Subaru WRX STi and Ford Focus ST and employs all-wheel drive — a key difference from the front-drive Golf and Golf GTI. Drivers can choose a new six-speed manual transmission or a six-speed dual-clutch automatic.
Under the new Volkswagen Golf Estate’s bonnet resides a wide range of turbocharged engines in both TSI petrol and TDI diesel forms. Bookending the line-up are the 1.6-litre TDI with CO2 emissions as low as 103g/km for impressive degrees of fuel miserliness, and the high-performance Golf Estate R, capable of reaching 155mph and dashing from 0-62mph in just 4.8 seconds. Unlike its hatchback equivalent, there are no GTE plug-in hybrid or all-electric e-Golf Estate versions available for even more environmentally friendly motoring. Whichever variant of the Golf Estate you opt for, you will find an 8.0-inch colour touchscreen in the centre console, with incorporated sat-nav on higher-specification models. Also standard across the range are roof rails, DAB radio, auxiliary connections including USB, Bluetooth connectivity, a trip computer and an electronic parking brake. Unsurprisingly, the latest Volkswagen Golf Estate is fitted with the same active safety equipment that the hatchback range enjoys. This means whichever trim level you choose it will be fitted with an automatic post-crash braking system which ensures the car is brought to a halt if it didn’t stop after the initial incident. Available from spring 2017, the Golf Estate received a mild visual facelift, restricted to new lights - with more LEDs - and bumpers.
Constellations, Configurations and Consumption: Exploring Patterns of Consumer Behaviour Amongst U.K. ABSTRACT - This paper extends existing U.S. U.K. consumers within the framework of symbolic interactionist approaches to understanding self. Margaret K. Hogg and Paul C.N.Michell (1997) ,Constellations, Configurations and Consumption: Exploring Patterns of Consumer Behaviour Amongst U.K. Shoppers, in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 24, eds. Merrie Brucks and Deborah J. MacInnis, Provo, UT. CONSTELLATIONS, CONFIGURATIONS AND CONSUMPTION: EXPLORING PATTERNS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AMONGST U.K. This paper extends existing U.S. U.K. consumers within the framework of symbolic interactionist approaches to understanding self. The aggregation of choices across products and services amongst consumers has been explored in a series of U.S. Symbolic interactionism proposes that individuals make sense of their world in terms of the social realities from which they derive their identities; and that actions and behaviours constitute ways of enacting their social reality and identities. Social role performance are learned behaviors that are culturally determined. 146;s actual role performance cannot be studied by assessing only the requirements of his/her social position since the individual combines the broad culturally defined demands of his/her position with individually-defined goals.
The interdependence between the cultural context and the individual context can be seen when examining the role of parents, mothers and fathers as consumers and shoppers. Their social role performance involves learned behaviours which are culturally determined, and yet these demands are mediated by individually-defined goals. Self image and self concepts are also central to this examination of the relationship between self and consumption. This paper reports constellations which can be associated with groups of U.K. 146; which represent non consumption which involves both non choice and anti choice. Non choices can include products and services which are not purchased (possibly because they are outside the means of the consumer). The general research objective proposed that the composition of the intermediate patterns could be established via the quantitative analysis of a large consumer database using correspondence analysis. Previous studies of joint consumption (Wells 1968, Alpert and Gatty 1969, Solomon and Buchanan 1991) have employed the analysis of large consumer databases in pursuit of evidence of patterns of joint consumption.
