Volkswagen Golf Mk2

The Volkswagen Golf Mk2 is a hatchback, the second generation of the Golf and the successor to the Mk1. It was Volkswagen's highest volume seller from 1983 and ended German production in late 1992, replaced by the Mk3. It was launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1983, reached the British market in March 1984 and the United States as a 1985 model. The Mk2 was larger than the Mk1, with a wheelbase 75 mm longer, a body 180 mm longer and 55 mm wider, and about 120 kg more weight. Its design, developed in-house under design director Schäfer, kept the Giugiaro lines but was slightly more rounded. About 6.3 million were built. Engines included a GTD turbodiesel, a 1.8 litre 16-valve GTI and the supercharged G60, and it was the last Golf with carburettor petrol engines.