Europe’s number one promoting automobile the VW Golf has reached 50 years outdated this 12 months, beginning manufacturing on the 29th of March 1974. Actually it has been one of the best promoting automobile in Europe since automobiles have been invented, Volkswagen shifting over 20 million of them.
It was again in 1974 when Volkswagen in Wolfsburg began manufacturing of the Golf, not realizing that the brand new compact automobile, the successor to the Beetle, would grow to be essentially the most profitable Volkswagen of all time. Okay, it’s achieved that over a number of generations however nonetheless.
Somebody at VW has labored out that with all these Golfs being bought that works out to round 2000 folks shopping for a brand new Golf someplace all over the world each single day. While you put it like that it sounds implausible, however don’t neglect that the Golf was produced in 8 totally different nations with 20 million of them at Wolfsburg alone.