Majorette VOLKSWAGEN The Originals Deluxe Cars Volkswagen Golf MK I (Black / White)

Volkswagen Golf MK I

Colour: Black & White
Manufacturer: Majorette
VOLKSWAGEN The Originals Deluxe Cars

SPECIFICATIONS:

Type: Die Cast Free Wheel Model Vehicle
Age: 3 Years+
Product Dimension (L x W x H): 7.5 x 3 x 3.8 cm
Packing Dimensions (L x W x H): 18 X 14 X 4 cm
Scale: 1:64

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

These officially licensed toy vehicles from Majorette are the perfect gift for fans of model vehicles. The series consists of 6 VW models, each of which has an intricately detailed design.

In addition to the eye-catching looks, the vehicles also have rotating wheels and moving parts, as well as suspension to ensure they travel smoothly across the floor.

The series includes popular models such as the Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Golf MK1 and the Volkswagen T1 Bus.

Each vehicle has moving parts that can be opened and moved to stimulate your child’s curiosity and encourage imaginative play.

• Highly detailed realistic looking toy car
• Encourage motor skills
• No sharp edges, safe for kids
• Ideal for the miniature car collection

ABOUT THE Golf Mk I

The Volkswagen Golf is a compact car/small family car (C-segment) produced by the German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, marketed worldwide across eight generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – including as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1).

The original Golf Mk1 was a front-engined, front-wheel drive replacement for the air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive Volkswagen Beetle. Historically, the Golf is Volkswagen's best-selling model and is among the world's top three best-selling models.

The Volkswagen Golf Mk1 is the first generation of a small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen. It was noteworthy for signalling Volkswagen'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.

Successor to Volkswagen's Beetle, the first-generation Golf debuted in Europe in May 1974 with styling by Giorgetto Giugiaro's Italdesign.

Volkswagen began producing prototypes of possible Beetle replacements as far back as the early 1950s, and may have received design proposals from Porsche earlier than that.

By the mid- to late-1950s, questions about the future of the Beetle began to be asked from outside the company. In 1957, an article with the title "Is the Volkswagen dated?"
In 1969 Lotz and Italian Volkswagen importer Gerhard R. Gumpert visited the Turin Auto Show. After selecting their six favourite cars of the show, they 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 first thing he saw when he arrived at VW's research centre was a Fiat 128, completely disassembled and labelled. The design brief provided by Volkswagen specified a C-segment car with a two-box body in three- and five-door versions. The client also provided Giugiaro with the basic dimensions and the power-train options.

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. Early prototypes included rectangular headlamps and wide tail-lamp assemblies. At least one pre-production car was modified with a sliding side door.

During development, candidates for the name of the new car included "Blizzard" and "Caribe", but these lost out to the final choice of "Golf". The origin of the name is variously attributed to the game of golf, the Gulf Stream current (German "Golfstrom") or the name of a horse.