Matchbox VW Mk1 GTI Golf (093)

Описание: On the bench today is a 1976 Matchbox VW MK1 GTI Golf. It was produced from 2020 - present. It’s No. MB1200.

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The Golf MK1 is the first generation of a small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen. It was noteworthy for signalling VW’s shift of its major car lines from rear-wheel drive and rear-mounted air-cooled engines to front-wheel drive with front-mounted, water-cooled engines that were often transversely-mounted. The Golf was the much anticipated successor to the legendary Beetle.

The genesis of the project goes back to 1969 when the VW Director General Kurt Lotz visited the Turin Auto Show. After selecting his six favourite cars of the show, he discovered that four of the six were designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and his Italdesign studio. Giugiaro was invited to Wolfsburg in January 1970 to work on development project EA337. The design brief provided by Volkswagen specified a C-segment car with a two-box body in three and five door versions.

Giugiaro produced a design that reflected his signature "origami" or "folded-paper" style, emphasizing sharp corners and flat planes. Giugiaro would come to consider the MK1 Golf the most important design of his career.

The Golf GTI debuted in March 1975 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and was available for sale in the autumn of 1976. Production was not expected to exceed 5000 units, which was the number needed to qualify for the Group One Production Touring Car class.

The special GTI edition was distinguished from the stock Golf by external changes that included black-plastic wheel arch extensions, a larger front spoiler, a matte-black frame around the backlite and a red frame for the grille. Ride height was reduced by 15 mm, and the standard car's solid front brake discs were replaced with ventilated discs. Anti-roll bars were also fitted front and rear.

Total production of Golf Mk1 GTIs eventually reached 462,000 units. In 2004, Sports Car International declared the Golf Mk1 GTI to be the 3rd best car of the 1980s.

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