It was bound to happen — chalk it up to changing times. Volkswagen’s hot follow on to the wildly popular Beetle is fading fast. The year 1973 saw the introduction of VW’s Mk1 Golf, known on these shores as the Rabbit, among the earliest of their front-engine, liquid-cooled, front-drive cars. By the fall of 1976, Volkswagen celebrated its 1 millionth Golf. The first generation would remain in production until 1983 and by then, 10 million had been produced.
The second generation, or Mk2, was built from 1983-91, and the name changed to Golf in the U.S. The Mk3, 1991-97, was the first to offer a V6 engine and station wagon body style. The Mk4 through the current Mk8 were next, successively, from 1997 to the present day, offering incremental changes and improvements along the way.
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