it was not cooled with air and it was not a boxer. A model new interval started with the first Golf. And the technical change was moreover accompanied by a change throughout the seen thought. “The Golf presents most usable space and safety. It is uncompromisingly smart,” is how the company described it on the time. And so the 12 months whereby Germany obtained the World Cup in soccer grew to change into the 12 months for the most-built Volkswagen of the long term. Merely two years later, the first million gadgets had already been purchased, and larger than 37 million gadgets have now been delivered worldwide.
The Golf would and wanted to proceed its success story. Nonetheless in 1974, no individual knew that its success is usually a lot bigger than that of the Beetle. Over time, the Golf grew to change into nearly imperceptibly part of our society, synonymous with a automobile class and even an entire period. And all people has more than likely had their very personal non-public experience with the Golf: as a driving school automotive, as an private new or used automotive, with kinfolk or friends, with two or 4 doorways, as a petroleum or diesel model, GTI or ‘strawberry basket’. Someplace there always was and nonetheless is a Golf.
The heart of the Volkswagen mannequin
Nonetheless, when sequence manufacturing of the Golf I started on the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg 50 years up to now – in March 1974 – this success was faraway from assured. On account of as a result of the successor to the Volkswagen Beetle, it adopted in massive footsteps. The Beetle, the icon, had laid the muse for Volkswagen’s worldwide success. Nonetheless the model new model from Wolfsburg was moreover highly regarded and shortly grew to change into a bestseller.
Throughout the subsequent model generations, it was always the Golf that made cheap mobility potential for everyone on the very best technical stage. It bought right here with know-how such as a result of the managed catalytic converter and surroundings pleasant drive strategies, and furthermore provided safety choices such as a result of the anti-lock braking system, airbags or the first all-wheel drive system throughout the product line. The important thing of the success might be all the best way all the way down to the reality that the designers transferred the first period’s DNA to its successors, thereby cultivating the fundamental design.
Progress of a model new bestseller
Work on a successor to the Volkswagen Beetle had already begun in Wolfsburg throughout the late Sixties. A variety of thought vehicles had been created, along with the EA (enchancment order) 276. The EA 276 from 1969 already exhibited many choices of the later worthwhile model similar to entrance engine, hatchback with huge boot lid and torsion beam axle. Nonetheless under the bonnet was nonetheless the well-known Beetle boxer engine with air cooling, and the principle goal was on reliability and low enchancment costs. Nonetheless, the occasions of this know-how had been coming to an end. The design of the EA 276 was pioneering, nonetheless one different thought automobile was developed further for sequence manufacturing. The model new model was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro (Italdesign).
Unusual exhibition duo on the Bremen Fundamental Motorshow
To mark the start the anniversary 12 months, the Volkswagen mannequin is presenting the Golf I in Bremen, thus recalling the beginning of the automotive revolution in 1974. The appears on the motor current is complemented by the distinctive EA 276 thought automobile – the predecessor to the Golf that was developed in Wolfsburg. The sensible yellow manufacturing Golf and the orange-red thought automobile might be seen at Stand D10 in Hall 5 from 2 to 4 February.
Volkswagen Fundamental is present on the current together with the Autostadt Wolfsburg, Volkswagen Enterprise Cars Oldtimers and Audi Customized, who might even make it potential for friends to experience automotive historic previous.
The Bremen Fundamental Motorshow has been opening the season of fundamental automobile displays in Germany for over 20 years. With over 46,000 friends, it is a company fixture throughout the event calendar of fundamental automotive fanatics.
More information, texts and movie supplies on the Golf might be discovered for get hold of throughout the Volkswagen Newsroom.
