The first Golf, a successor to Volkswagen's Beetle, comes off the assembly line at a company plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, on March 29, 1974. The front-wheel-drive car, designed by Giorgio Giugiaro, ...

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May 2024 will mark half a century since Volkswagen presented the Giorgetto Giugiaro-designed Golf in May 1974. Series production of the Beetle's hatchback-bodied successor started in March 1974, and ...

Volkswagen has had close ties with the Golf since 1974. The original was sold under different monikers, including the Rabbit in the United States and Canada and the Caribe in Mexico, and it was so ...