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From: opus@drutx.UUCP (ShanklandJA)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: "golf" balls - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 00:54:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  4 00:54:10 1984
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    > the reason that the Golf is so named and has been so named for
    > a while ( in Europe ) is that the engines (and recently, also
    > the suspension) are manufactured by Golf Engineering located
    > just outside of Stuttgart.  It started out as an aftermarket
    > firm dedicated to upgrading the Rabbit but because of the
    > incredible popularity with the European market, VW almost
    > immediately approached Golf with an offer to upgrade all
    > Rabbits ... this led to the complete changeover of the name
    > from Rabbit-Golf ( the previous aftermarket name ) to Golf,
    > the only name on the car ( of course VW still has it's [sic]
    > name there too ).

I don't know about Golf Engineering outside of Stuttgart, but there
certainly never was a car named a "Rabbit" or "Rabbit-Golf" in Germany;
VW called it Golf there from day 1.

Jim Shankland
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