Re: scirocco-L-digest V1 #802

[Kathy Teulie <104372.1061@compuserve.com>]

I donít think you understood what I was talking about when
I say A2 Golf. I am saying that the 3 and 5 door hard top A2
Golf was the replacement for the US version of the Rabbit, the
Mexico built rabbit, and The German Wolfsburg Golf / Rabbit.
The A1 Golf / Rabbit was and still is built in several factories.
Did you know that South Africa still builds the A1 Golf? They do.
 The Karmann built convertible rabbits were all built in Germany.
The tooling is not the same for the standard A1 golf and the
Karmann Golf / Rabbit convertible. Karmann built the convertible as
a special car like the Scirocco. Karmann was building A1s.
In the US the A2 (never convertible) Golf was the new car with the new
name in 1985. The older Rabbit convertible did not take its German name
ever in the US. The A2 did take its German Name. VW did not
want to try to remarket the older convertible as a Golf because it would
confuse the public that was seeing the Golf name for the first time and
associating it with the A2 body. The A3 Cabrio is a totally different
story.
This car was built in Germany and Mexico. I don't like this car at all!

Canada did get some cars that were more like the Euro versions.
I am not sure if they got a GOLF CABRIOLET badge on some cars
but you could get the badges at shops in the US.

You will note that I have both Sciroccos and I understand that they are
A1's
and I had a A2 Golf GTI 16v too.

Doug
87 16v Silver MK2 A1 Scirocco "GTX"
81 8v red MK1 A1 Scirocco "S" 
90 16v Passat wagon
Past
88 A2 Golf GTI 16v red
87 Polo GT (work car)
87 Fox Wagon
 


Message text written by Jim Jarrett
>At 11:36 AM -0400 9/16/98, Kathy Teulie wrote:
> You all know that they are GOLFs in Europe.


Yes, I did.  I probably should have mentioned that.....

Do you know, or does anyone know, were Canadian ragtops badged as Golf
Cabriolets?  I saw an '85 Golf Cabriolet at a car show this weekend, but I
guess I didn't ask my question clearly enough.  Couldn't tell whether some
creative re-badging had taken place or what.

> Rabbit is the US name.
> The first Golf convertible made its public debut at the 1979 Geneva
> show. The prototype was built three years earlier (1976). I think it was
> 1985 that they changed the badge to "Golf  Cabriolet" in Europe.  In the
US
> the A2 was known as the Golf and the A1 was known as the Rabbit.

> In 1985 when the Golf name was used for the A2 the Rabbit name was still
> used for the older convertible. VW did not want to confuse the market and
> call the convertible a "Golf" in the US. So they just called it a
> Cabriolet.

Actually, from what I understand, the Cabriolet stayed as the A1 body style
until very recently when the Cabrio came out on the A3 platform; ie. they
skipped the A2 for the Cabriolet.

I just had to start this thread, because it's one of my hot buttons.  Like
calling the Scirocco Mk II an "A2 Scirocco" or using an apostrophe to
denote plurality rather than possession ("The Rabbit Convertible's were all
made in Germany.").
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