Production of the new VW Golf starts in Wolfsburg

Series production of the new Golf started today at the VW plant in Wolfsburg. As the first model of the technically and visually revised eighth generation, a Golf Style in Anemone Blue Metallic rolled off the production line in Hall 12 - almost exactly 50 years to the day after the first production Golf was ever built at the main plant.

Of the more than 37 million units of the compact class king sold over the past five decades, more than half have been produced here, an average of 400,000 vehicles per year. The largest plant in the Volkswagen Group had another reason to celebrate this week. A few days before the start of production of the new Golf, the 48 millionth vehicle rolled off the production line at the plant - no other car plant in the world has ever produced as many cars as Wolfsburg. It almost goes without saying that the anniversary model was also a Golf. The uranium gray car is on its way to a customer in Great Britain.

With around 20 million vehicles, the Golf is the most popular model at the site. In second place, with almost 12 million vehicles, is the Beetle, which was produced in Wolfsburg from 1945 to 1975. The Tiguan is now in third place, with almost 3.5 million vehicles having left the production halls since production began in 2007. It has thus overtaken the Polo, which first rolled off the production line on the Mittelland Canal in 1975 and sold just over three million units. (aum)