The original Volkswagen Golf has immense tuning potential, and with the right amount of mods, it can stand its ground against full-blown exotics. Boba Motoring’s own copy proved that it can give ...

Timeless, fun, cool, quick... expensive Take this Mk1 Golf GTi. It's a late 1.6 in Mars Red (recently resprayed) and plenty of history to back up its 31 years and 162,000 miles. It appeared to ...

The first thing that strikes you about the Golf Mk1 is its size. Even in isolation it looks tiny, more like a very large toy rather than an actual car. Place it beside the latest Mk8.5 on the road ...

The steering too. The weight is surprising at first – the Mk1 feels four-times the weight of the Up when you’re parking – but that’s just the price of progress. The Golf makes up for it by ...

Most abandoned cars spend their retirement years in junkyards, but you'll also find quite a few of them in barns and backyards. And all these vehicles have one thing in common: they're powered by ...

Tartan trim. Power to the people. Here’s where the story starts. For the Mk1 Volkswagen Golf GTI, this 1983 Campaign edition was also how it ended: a last hurrah before the Mk2 arrived.

However, it is actually very different. This Golf GTI has been a staple at various drag racing events throughout Europe for the past few years and earlier this month turned heads at the RACE1000 ...

The mk1 Volkswagen Golf GTI was far from the immaculate concept it may have seemed at its 1975 Frankfurt show debut. A ‘hot’ version of the Giugiaro-penned front-drive replacement for the 35 ...

It may not have been the first ‘hot hatch’ per se, but the Mk1 Golf GTI is considered by many to be the “spiritual father of hot hatchery” – the car that gave birth to a phenomenon.

VWSA is commemorating the original Golf 1 with a final, limited-edition (only 1000 examples) Citi, branded simply Citi Mk1, a fitting gesture to close the book on the South Africa's best selling ...