The good news here is that the Mk1 Golf still delivers ... type of thing. Thus, VW’s executives weren’t interested in building a performance-oriented Golf. Instead, a six-man skunkworks ...

who had been tasked with styling a range of new models for VW that would also include the first-generation Scirocco and Passat. But the Golf was never meant to be a performance car. It was ...

In 1975, the Mk1 ... performance. Its damping was also criticised for being too soft: tuned for comfort, rather than B-road ...