50 Years Ago, the Golf Created the Fashion of the GTI

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He won races, then the bureaucracy won: this tuned Golf GTI was confiscated in 2018 and only eight years later he returns to the race track.

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In European car history, some cars pass without changing habits. Others draw a very clear line between a front and a later. Before them, a way of driving, well-installed landmarks. After, nothing really happens in the same way. The Golf GTI, which appeared 50 years ago, clearly belongs to this second category. In the spring of 1974, Volkswagen launched the first Golf to turn the page of the Beetle. A compact tailgate, traction, practical, seriou…