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Volkswagen Golf
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The Volkswagen Golf is a small family car made by Volkswagen that has been popular with everyday drivers for decades. It matters because it helped define what a practical, affordable car should be and remains one of the world's best-selling vehicles.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Volkswagen Golf is referenced by 791 other articles, and connects out to Volkswagen Gol, crossover and Volkswagen Atlas.
Vinony files it under 1980s cars, 1990s cars and 2000s cars.
Its subject is documented across 52 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Volkswagen
- Production
- 1974–present
- Class
- Compact car / small family car ( C )
- Predecessor
- Volkswagen Beetle (first generation only, until 1998 )
- Successor
- Volkswagen ID.3 (for e-Golf)
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- C-segment
- Has part
- Volkswagen Golf Mk2
- Follows
- Volkswagen Pointer
- Manufacturer
- Volkswagen Group
- Official website
- www.volkswagen.de/de/modelle-und-konfigurator/golf.html
- Image
- VW Golf GOAL (VIII, Facelift) – f 18042025.jpg
- Brand
- Volkswagen
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- different from
- Volkswagen Gol
- topic's main category
- Category:Volkswagen Golf
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- Volkswagen Golf
- Commons category
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Encyclopedic overview
The Volkswagen Golf (listen) is a compact car/small family car (C-segment) produced by the German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, marketed worldwide across eight generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – including as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1). The Golf is Volkswagen's best-selling model and the third best-selling automobile of all time, with over 37 million units sold worldwide.
The original Golf Mk1 was a front-engined, front-wheel drive replacement for the air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive Volkswagen Beetle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volkswagen Golf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.