In the process, the Golf became nearly as ubiquitous as the Beetle it replaced as a result of that appeal. Continue reading The good news here is that the Mk1 Golf still delivers joy at a half ...

The final design of the Golf was known as the Type 17. The Golf Mk1 went into production in March 1974, and sales officially began in May of the same year. About a year later, the hatchback ...

Its designer [acidbourbon] remarks that the circuit bears a striking resemblance to a ring modulator,so has taken it down that path by producing a 74HC based ring modulator guitar pedal.

Ask any performance car enthusiast under 35 what their first fast car was and there’s a good chance they will respond with the name of a hot hatch of some kind. But their answer would be very ...

There had been tuned versions of family cars before the Golf, like the Mini Cooper S, for example, but the Mk1 GTI defined the template for the modern hot hatch. It combined performance and ...

Imagine how sci-fi that all would’ve seemed to the engineers who set up the 110bhp Mk1 Golf GTI back in 1975… A fair bit more than that Mk1 all those years ago, that’s for sure. There’s ...

In other words, it's the closest they'll get to building a private golf course in their backyard. This digital caddie provides analytics for every shot—distance, swing speed, ball speed ...

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Golf in the Dominican Republic started with Pete Dye’s Teeth of the Dog course at Casa de Campo. For years it was the gold standard of golf in the Caribbean with seven stunning holes running ...

Paul Liberatore is the founder of Golfers Authority, which reviews the world's best golf products and gear. This post contains affiliate links, where we may receive a percentage of any sale made ...

What will the closing ceremony bring? Fans will have to tune in to find out. Popular sports like soccer and golf weren't always in the Olympics. Check out when summer sports became a part of the ...

Buyers on the hunt for fourth-generation or earlier examples of Volkswagen Golf will probably be best served by scouring specialists or even the classified ads. VW launched the Mk1 Golf in 1974 ...