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VolkswagenGolf Mk1
ProductionUnknown
Recorded originGermany
ClassC-segment
Also known asVolkswagen Caribe · Volkswagen Rabbit
Background
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.
Text adapted from “Volkswagen Golf Mk1” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: production chronology. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.