The Volkswagen Golf Mk1 is the first generation of a small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen. It was noteworthy for signalling Volkswagen's shift of its major car lines from rear-wheel drive and rear-mounted air-cooled engines to front-wheel drive with front-mounted, water-cooled engines that were often transversely-mounted.

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May 20, 2024 · If you've been thinking about one, a Mk1 VW Golf or Rabbit is still one of the best bang-for-buck time machines out there.

The original Golf Mk1 was a front-engined, front-wheel drive replacement for the air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive Volkswagen Beetle. Historically, the Golf is Volkswagen's best-selling model and is among the world's top three best-selling models, with more than 35 million units sold as of 2019. [2][3][4]

The Volkswagen Golf Mk1 is the first generation of the compact car Volkswagen Golf. It was made from from 1974 [5] to 1983. [5] From 1982 [6] to 1984, Volkswagen made a sports model called the Golf GTD. [7] From 1976 [5] to 1983, [5] Volkswagen made …

Mar 27, 2014 · As the successor to the legendary Beetle, of which over 21.5 million units were built, the Golf I designed by Giorgio Giugiaro and Volkswagen Design had to live up to the immense expectations that it would carry on the success story of what until then was the world's most successful car.

Like its predecessor the Volkswagen Beetle, the Volkswagen Golf Mk1 has proven to be influential. In continuous production since 1974, the Golf was one of the first widely successful front-wheel drive hatchbacks.

Jun 19, 2020 · The Golf MK1 was the successor to the Beetle, it was intended to be Volkswagen’s next chapter, inspiring newer generations of consumers. Actually, it did more than that as it also inspired the future of compact motoring.

Feb 8, 2018 · The MK1 Golf was a water-cooled, front-engined, front-wheel drive hatchback that set standards of design still used today, more than 40 years later. The Mark 1 Golf/Rabbit was created using many parts recently acquired with Auto Union, and used in the new Audis.