A tired cliche surfaces when reviewing cars endowed with anything resembling ‘classic’ status or a lengthy tour of duty, and the CitiGolf is doubly qualified. It goes along the lines of ‘it’s touched the hearts and lives of so many South Africans’ or the similar ‘you’re <http://you.re/> bound to have owned one or known someone who has’. Sigh. In the case of SA’s beloved CitiGolf, it’s a tragic understatement.
Despite a presence in modern showrooms, the Citi recalls the pioneering days for mass-produced front-wheel drive cars, and structurally harks back to heady times of design freed from NCAP safety ratings and increasingly obese kerb weights. No surprise that this ‘final release’ iteration of the re-released Mk1 Citi (ours is numbered 084 out of 1000) still only tips the scales at a sprightly 858kg.
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Best vehicle to modify. No
Best vehicle to modify. No matter what, these vehicles are still great.
MY FOX TRIPPA
I LOVE MY FOX ITS A OLD CAR EVERYONE WANTS IT
2L MOTOR ON IT
VELODASH AND DOORS
18 INC MAC REM
U CANT TOUCH THIS
Yes, apes!
YES, APES!!! ONLY APES BUY VWS!
vw = apes
COMMENT OF A REGULAR "BESTSELLINGCARS" SITE AMERICAN READER:
WHO ARE THE APES WHICH BUY VOLKSWAGENS???
Apes?
Yup any Yank hat grew up on the inferior stuff that GM Ford and Chrysler floggs in the USA will make such a idiotic statement. Those are really not comparable to any car assembled in Germany, Japan and Korea and at a push even France and Italy.
I own yellow 3/door 1.6D MK1
I own yellow 3/door 1.6D MK1 (1984) for three years.It's my first car and I'm so happy with it.I covered over 40.000 km since I've got it.I use it everyday and it is such a versatile,fun and economic car.With wider tyres car is astonishing in curves,handles good and it won't brake when you drive over bumps.
I'll never sell it.
A lot of people seem to love
A lot of people seem to love this car. It is quite hard to believe that over 370 000 Citis have been produced and sold for the last 25 years. I would be surprised if they still sell it in the car shops but what do I know, the Citi Golf is a classic after all.
suspension
What I really like about Golf is it uses MacPherson strut front suspension setup since their first generation. They have mastered this set-up since then.. Its basic parts did not change all throughout the year from the strut mount bearing, control arm, wishbone, wheel bearing housing assembly, shock absorber assembly, track rod and steering arm. These components did not change but were improved further.
looks nice to me
whooahh never seen this car in person wonder where can i find this one
citi
as a citi golf owner myself the last citi mk1 made was a rip off... but you have to accept the fact they are beautiful cars and also very cheap wen it comes to maintaining and repairing the vehicle... verdict the golf mk1 will never die!
Get Real
I am a citi golf owner myself and for you people out there that think its a rip off or a waste of time, you guys are wrong because at the end of the day, why were so many people buying the citi golf? beacause its cheap to maintane, its lite on fuel and good for a college student wanting to run around...
HATERS
Why do you have to hate, just appreciate that your R300K M3 will be beaten by a tuned VW golf near you with a total value at R90K. I love most cars but what other car has lasted longer than this legend a golf can be customised to fit any personality. hence peoples cars
LET`S TALK ABOUT MODERN THINGS
Please lets shut down this subject. This old bang is a project of 40 years old and lets talk about more interesting and modern cars.
Not the only one
This is a very well-written article!
Guys, please don't forget about the Opel Corsa Lite. No ABS or anything, and doubtfully much safer than the Citi.
Corsa Lite
The Corsa Lite at least benefits from about 20 years of newer technology and design over the Citi...
OLD BANG
An old bang with 35 years!
Nice for a while
The latter fuel injected models with the new dash etc were nice for a brief spin with its back to basics go-cart feel but not for longer than that as it then got pretty tiresome to drive.....very tiresome and uncomfortable.
MK1 GTI
If i was Volkswagen i would've made the last mk1 golfs to hit the street the legend of them all.....the mk1 GTI. I would pay R100k if they made it worth our(petrol heads) while and im not talkin about a 1.6l engine.
Ripp off.
All I can say is this car was fine for the 80's but to have had it in the millennium and selling for over R100k, what a rip off. VW milked this car for all it was worth and then some, and the public. The replacement for this car should have been the polo and priced the same. The public have been taken for a ride(no pun intended) for far too long, The public must stop taking high prices for very little, we control the market and should act accordingly.
own one then say they are a
own one then say they are a crap car.
So what vw milked the citi, it has sold hundereds of thousands, clearly a crap car.
Even from 74 the original sold thousands.................
I own one and i preferre it to teh old one as it has the slight modern mods to it, which i notice the few that do slag it off, soon take the ideas from teh citi i.e. bigger servo for one and do the mod on there's, so obviously they also see some clever upgrades to the citi.
At end of day, i dont give a toss who slags it, it is a mk1 but better, just teh jealous arses who can't get hold of one bitch.
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