Regardless, we still have eight generations of Golf production, and here are all of them ranked from slowest to fastest. 8. 1975–1984 Volkswagen Golf (Mk1 1st Generation) Zlajs/Shutterstock ...

The Volkswagen Golf line is 50 years old! Let's look back the successive generations of VW's best selling car model, from GTIs to e-models, and beyond.

The Golf is the heart of the Volkswagen brand – and it stands for the term “bestseller” like hardly any other model. More than 37 million vehicles have been sold in eight generations.

Since then, eight generations have been launched in the span of 50 years. There have been ups and downs over the decades, but ...

All those things could force VW to discontinue the Golf, relying on the similarly-sized ID.3 and the smaller ID.2 as indirect replacements for its once-conquering compact hatchback.

From its 110-hp beginnings, all the way up to today's news of a 241-hp eighth-generation Golf GTI. VW's three red letters have come a long way.