Clcompany is delighted to feature the facts about Volkswagen Golf – an iconic car in all aspects which overtook its well know predecessor.
1974 is the year in which Volkswagen presents the first Golf, the successor to the Beetle. This was supposed to be a revolutionary step up from Beetle to Golf and indeed it was to move the engine from rear to front and make it water-cooled from earlier air-cooled. Another shift was the move away from the round design to the angular one. So in many ways, Golf was technologically and design-wise advanced from the predecessor – Beetle. The customers felt so as well and as per the official numbers from Volkswagen, Golf 1 Gen sold 6.99 million times more than the iconic beetle.
VOLKSWAGEN’S GOLF
Golf was positioned as a family car with the new styling. The Golf adopted a two-box design with a steep hatchback instead of a formal trunk. The chassis was a steel unibody. The car’s engine was mounted transversely in the front and drove the front wheels. This turned out to be a stable car with different looks and decent power for the road drives.
Features of Volkswagen’s Golf
- Displacement – 1.1L
- Power – 49 BHP at 6,000 rpm
- Transmission – 4 Speed
- Top speed – 90.1 mph
- Kerb weight– 790–930 kg
- Wheelbase– 94.5 in
Known for
- Upright Solid C Pillars
- Horizontal Front with Slim Grills
- More than a million sold with Diesel Engines
Interesting Facts of Volkswagen Golf–
- As a publicity campaign – Mk1 crossed the entire American continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, a distance of 30,514km, in 94 days.
- The first Golf GTI was an after-hours work job and management only reluctantly agreed to a run of 5000 cars in 1976.
- Volkswagen started selling the Golf in the US, calling it the Rabbit; the Golf name was thought to be too aspirational.
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