In 1986, Mike D of the Beastie Boys wore a necklace with a VW badge in a video and publicity shots for the band's first album, setting off a wave of imitative badge thefts from Golfs parked in suburbia. It seemed absolutely the correct thing at the time. My honeymoon on the Cote d'Azur was in a Golf cabrio.
But most exciting of all were its origami-like lines, its generous 'glasshouse' windows and the sheer clarity of its design.Ĭompared with the insectoid globularity of the Beetle, the Golf was irresistibly modern.
The Golf had wonderful details, including a gear-lever knob that was pitted like a golf ball and a filler cap with indentations for thumb and fingers, which I found oddly thrilling. In the Seventies, Fulham hooray Henries who couldn't afford a Porsche drove Golf GTIs, with red paint and red trim that nicely matched their preposterous scarlet braces and socks. The Golf was originally a brash status symbol. Princess Diana with her flatmate Virginia Pitman and her prized Volkswagen Golf, which Diana acquired in 1979
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