Nicholas Tabone: Transformation in Volkswagen Golf Mk to Mk6

Transformation

In Design.

Volkswagen golf Mk1 (1974)

Volkswagen Golf Mk6 (2008)

The company Volkswagen began operating in the year 1937. The model Golf came a few years later where they wanted just a small family car. This Golf mk1 was the replacement of the Volkswagen Beetle because of its better performance like the front wheel drive and other that made the Golf mk1 so much attractive to the customers. Years over years, six different Golf mk1 were introduced from the1974 till 1980, one with more power, other hatchback, diesel power, face-lift and other.

Years past and till today six models came out from the Golf mk1 till the Golf mk6. The Volkswagen Company sold them like sweets, one after another and with customers waiting. They were always a good condition car and responding well to the driver. Of course if you drive the mk6 it’s more powerful, fuel efficient, modern, new technology than the mk1, but for it’s time it was a very good car.

There are 38 years between the first edition and the last one. If we start with the body it is more flowing and lower for preventing from air resistance, better headlights and taillights to be brighter but not to blind other drivers, better coatings of spray to be less scratched, better windows with much more room to see and tinted well. The wheels are much larger and with more area of tyre to avoid large hit into the persons even to the car with that it has to have a better suspension with shock absorbers and springs, to balance and make the car less bumpy.

The interior is something different from both of them the mk1 it is just a simple dashboard with some buttons like wipers, hazard lights, light on/off and some more, the seats just in one form, less room and with no safety. Whether the mk6 with all the new technology of central locking, electronic windows, gps, air condition, seats fitted to your back, steering level to your height, sensors and much more. The interior is extraordinary and with more safety features.

It is rule that something new it has to better a design and with superior technology. If not, nobody will buy their product and by interesting the customers the design is their first sight for buying. The better the merrier.