We are now back on the topic, as we want to show you what happens when these guys get their hands on a Golf Mk1 and decided to ... power line we find a custom DSG double-clutch gearbox.

with a £1,330 premium for the DSG-equipped car. The GTI Edition 30 is also available with five doors for an additional £500. The right hand drive Mk1 Golf GTI – developing a modest 112 bhp ...

Rather like the Ferrari F40 or Jaguar E-Type, it often feels like we know everything about the Mk1 ... Golf the three-door car has been dropped, and it would be staggering if manual outsold DSG ...

When it was first launched in Europe in 1974, the Mk1 Golf was utilitarian ... The alternative is a seven-speed DSG dual-clutch transmission, which adds $1,100 to the price.

With a manual gearbox, the Golf Estate also consumes 4.3 l/100 km while the DSG raises that figure to 4.5 l/100 km. For the Golf Sportsvan, the numbers are 4.5 (manual) and 4.6 l/100 km (DSG).

Volkswagen likes to tell us the Golf is the car for everyman, which is a non-gender-specific term also embracing everywoman and running the social spectrum from everytoff to everychav. But truth ...