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ottobre 24, 2016 - Volkswagen

Countdown to Golf update in November

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  • The history of this German bestseller features many record breaking milestones
  • For 42 years a #golf has been sold every 40 seconds around the world 

The countdown has begun: in early November, #volkswagen will be introducing a major update for its most successful model – the #golf. This bestseller has been around for more than four decades. An entire generation has been named after it as Generation X is known as "Generation Golf" in Germany. No other European car has sold better. By the end of last year, 32,590,025 #golf cars had been sold. In effect, therefore, over the last 42 years someone, somewhere in the world decides to buy a new #golf every 40 seconds. Record-breaking statistics like these have shaped the car's history. And #volkswagen democratises progress to this very day with the #golf.

  • 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 hitherto 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.
  • 1,000,000 km – in 2003, a #golf Mk1 driver broke through one million kilometres on the clock. More "millionaires" followed.
  • €188,938 – the most expensive #golf (Generation IV) 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 engine options.