petrol & diesel heads - mk1 golf vs mk1 focus

pogofish

catoutthebag wrote: »

Have you walked out the house recently ? Of so, how did you fail to notice the multi award winning and game changing, Britain's highest selling car of the late 90s and beyond?

We apparently even have had a few in the pool vehicles at work! - I still couldn't tell you what it looks like and as a vehicle to drive - well, I suppose it does its job well enough as I have no particular memory of it, good or bad.

So, a Focus is a functional but entirely bland and forgettable vehicle, whilst I'd spot a Mk1 Golf a mile-off!

Also consider the competition when both vehicles were launched - The Golf was so far ahead of most of its competition that it couldn't fail to be remembered!

pogofish

forgotmyname wrote: »

Renault 4 in the early 60's, Simca in the late 60's All front wheel drive, plenty of rear drive cars from Fiat and FSO (rebadged Fiats)

Austin Maxi late 60's all predate the Golf, So no the Golf is was not a large impact.
Ask people in the late 70's what a Golf was and most wouldn't know.

Then the GTI arrived and it got noticed.

You cannot beat the MINI for a milestone in motoring

Renault, Simca and the other small foreign cars of that era were just the sort of thing that made the Golf so outstanding - It was everything they were not.

TBF, the Austin Maxi occupied a totally different market segment back then - This was a car for people who aspired to substance and traditional solitity. The Golf by comparison was decidely modernist. I'll agree that later Golf models did hit the same cliche'd market big time but we were beyond Mk1 by then

Milestone it may have been but the Mini was an outdated and under-designed car even by 1974.

Prothet_of_Doom

catoutthebag wrote: »

You don't understand the question, do you?

This is about a mk1 focus vs mk1 golf. Both great and we'll built cars and classics in their own right....and their impact and influence today. Vw admitted after the mk1 focus thar they had to do something drastic to change the dying and outdated golf of the time. Every hatchback since the mk1 focus has been influenced by it, stylistically and otherwise.

I understood the question. But choose to pretend I didn't :rotfl: