The Golf Mk1 went into production in March 1974, and sales officially began in May of the same year. About a year later, the hatchback reached the US market under the Rabbit moniker.

Experience a wild Viertelmeile (¼-mile) drag race between a heavily modified VW Golf Mk1 Drag Racer and a turbocharged Toyota Supra. With high-rev burnouts, aggressive launches, and raw turbo power, ...

The unbridled success of the original Mk1 Golf meant that Volkswagen was reluctant to change the winning formula too much for the Mk2. Instead of an overhaul, a number of iterative improvements ...

By 1981, Mk1 Golf was being assembled in eight different countries, and Antarctica was the only continent where it wasn’t sold. It was now also available as a convertible, ...

The VW Golf Mk1 was a huge hit, proving itself as a worthy successor of the Beetle and a very tough act to follow, as future generations proved. VW Golf Mk1 interior. VW Golf Mk I timeline.

The Mk1 Golf was very much a landmark car in the way it introduced such modern technology – and performance – to the mainstream. In 1974 it must have seemed impossibly cutting edge, ...

Yup, don't let the Volkswagen Golf MK1 body fool you, this old hatchback doesn't have a four-cylinder mill under the hood. The original engine was removed a few decades ago and replaced with an ...

This Mk2 iteration of the Volkswagen Golf was just as big of a hit as the Mk1. In fact, the sales for the two were nearly identical, with the Golf Mk2 selling 6.41 million units during its lifetime.

Tuned cars don’t get much cooler than a classic Volkswagen Golf Mk1 with a V8 engine strapped under its hood, right? You might be tempted to say ‘no’, but bear with us, because this example ...

Up front, his Mk1 Golf packs a Volkswagen VR6 engine, which powers the front wheels through its standard five-speed manual transmission. That engine was swapped in years ago, replacing the ...

As in many of the Golf Mk1s tuned in Germany, the original 1.8 8V engine was swapped for the publically acclaimed 16-valve 1.8 KR-type motor first seen in Mk1's successor, Golf GTI Mk 2.