It took Volkswagen more than two decades to complete ... The final design of the Golf was known as the Type 17. The Golf Mk1 went into production in March 1974, and sales officially began in ...

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This particular GTI, from Volkswagen’s UK heritage fleet and seen before on these pages, is a 1984 example, making it a late very Mk1. The first Mk2 GTIs landed in the UK in March that same year ...

Ask any performance car enthusiast under 35 what their first fast car was and there’s a good chance they will respond with the name of a hot hatch of some kind. But their answer would be very ...