In the meantime, the company has taken the chance to remind us just how successful its big-selling model line has been since it was introduced back in 1974.
- 32,590,025 vehicles by the end of 2015 – the Volkswagen Golf is the most successful European car ever.
- 21,517,415 vehicles– 2002 saw Golf sales overtake the hither to most successful car in the world: the Beetle.
- 10,000,000 vehicles – by 1988 the Golf had already broken through the ten million vehicles barrier.
- 1,000,000km – in 2003, a Golf Mk1 driver broke through one million kilometres on the clock. More “millionaires” followed.
- €188,938– the most expensive Golf (Generation V) was auctioned in 2005; the first owner was Pope Benedict XVI.
- €10,156– the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first Golf (Generation II) was auctioned in 2012.
- 2,120 Golf cars per day– this works out at more than two thousand new Golf cars being produced and sold every day for four decades.
- 730 days for the first million– only two years after its debut, the millionth unit of the first Golf was delivered.
- 650 PS for the enthusiasts – the most powerful Golf ever was the GTI W12-650. It was presented in 2007 at the GTI meet at Wörthersee.
- 155 countries – today the Golf is manufactured in five factories (Brazil, China, Germany, Mexico) and exported to 155 countries.
- 5 drive worlds – the Golf is the only car in the world which is available with electric, hybrid, petrol, diesel and gas powered engineoptions.