VW Golf I Cabriolet - Sky and handles
Summary
The Beetle Cabriolet's fan community would probably have been large enough to give it another 10 years of production, but there were good reasons why the Beetle had to make way for the open-top Golf. And it did a really good job and managed to be built for 14 years with only minor changes. Even today, when almost all Golf Cabriolets are already classic cars, it still manages to impress with its modern virtues. This driver's report is about a late VW Golf Cabriolet and summarizes the 14-year history of the first open Golf generation, extensively illustrated and supplemented with the sales brochure of the time.
This article contains the following chapters
- But with a bar
- One and a half years of development time
- Open-top four-seater with a sporty touch
- Continuous further development
- More plastic
- Long-term qualities
- Strawberry basket on the move
Estimated reading time: 9min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Open-top Volkswagens have a long tradition. The first Beetle Cabriolet was spotted as early as 1938, and from 1949 there was officially both a 2+2-seater Hebmüller version, which was only built for one year, and the four-seater Cabriolet built by Karmann. When the first pictures of the upcoming VW Golf Cabriolet appeared in the press in 1977, the Beetle 1303 Cabriolet was still selling extremely well. Karmann was building 50 units a day and selling them effortlessly. The fact that Volkswagen was nevertheless working on a successor was also due to the fact that the Beetle was ill-equipped to meet the stringent American emissions standards, a problem that the Golf did not have. And so the Golf's roof was cut off and it was given a fabric hood.
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