Car tuning is both an industry and a hobby, in which a car is modified in order to improve its performance and handling and improve the owner’s driving style. As most cars leave the factory set up for average driver expectations and average conditions, tuning has become a way to personalize the characteristics of the vehicle to the owner’s preference. For example, cars may be altered to provide better fuel economy, produce more power at high RPM or the ride comfort may be sacrificed to provide better handling.

Car tuning is related to auto racing, although most performance cars never compete. Rather they are built for the pleasure of owning and driving such a vehicle. Another major facet of tuning includes performance modification to the car exterior. This includes changing the aerodynamic characteristics of the vehicle via side skirts, front and rear bumpers, adding spoilers, splitters, air vents and light weight wheels.

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In North America, the Golf Mk1 was sold as the Volkswagen Rabbit. In Mexico, the Golf Mk1 was sold as the Volkswagen Caribe.

As of 2008, the Golf Mk1 is still being produced in South Africa as the Volkswagen Citi Golf.

The Golf Mk1 is also featured in the game midnight club los angeles.

Like its predecessor the Volkswagen Beetle, the Volkswagen Golf Mk1 has proved to be influential. In continuous production since 1974, the Golf was one of the first widely successful front wheel drive hatchbacks. In the USA, the Rabbit would spark another generation of VW-alike front-wheel drive American compacts, such as the Omni, Escort and Cavalier in the 1980s, just as the Beetle inspired Falcon and Corvair in 1960s and subcompact Vega and Pinto in the 1970s. The Golf’s performance also defined the hot hatch before youth started tuning their imports.

Replacing the Beetle was a vital goal for Volkswagen’s continued survival. By the early 1970s, the company had fallen into financial woe. The novelty of the Beetle had worn thin. Sales were in terminal decline. The front-engine, rear drive small cars like the Toyota Corolla were refined enough to woo customers away from Volkswagen’s noisy underpowered engines and dated styling. The Type 3 and Type 4 fastback and squareback failed to attract much interest, whilst the NSU-developed K70 was a failure.

The small Golf had to succeed in replacing the high volume Volkswagen sedan. The upmarket Dasher/Passat would be VW’s first front wheel drive car, and it was relatively well received for its lower volume market. The Golf would adopt an efficient “two-box” layout with a steep hatch rather than a formal trunk, which would be later added in the Jetta. The water-cooled engine would be mounted transversely in the front. Work on the Golf began in 1969, shortly after Kurt Lotz became head of Volkswagen.

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The website and the community gives you the option to discuss anything related to the Golf MKII, and have a photo gallery uploaded for your car to show it’s beauty, also there is some traders you might be interesting to join them, you’re your car or buy one you like.

Community members are so friendly, since I started my first welcome post in the forum , and during time I spend to write this post, I got 2 welcome replies so far.

For me it’s good to be connected to the forum, this inspire me to write more post on My Golf II, as it’s a real place to talk.

What people are doing in car market?

I can say they are not doing anything useful these days, just wasting each other’s time, because no body is buying and that mean no body is sealing his car also!

I don’t really remember how many weeks I had to go to the car market to offer my car for sale, I got confused now because I really don’t know how much to ask, so whenever someone ask how much price I would like to have for my car, I say .. well.. you better ask my car because I really don’t know!

I went down from 37.000 EL to 33.000 EL but with no use, buyers offer only 30.000 EL as a price for it as Egyptians like the close amounts, and they take out the change. They also discuss lots about how much they will spend on this car and how they will treat it which is not my biz in fact.

I am offering a standard release of the Golf II, it doesn’t have a monster engine so it’s not for racing! It’s for someone who will use it to go and come back from work everyday safe! It’s for normal use, so I don’t give a shit what they are telling me, and I don’t have to hear that boring love story about my old car with it’s new owner!

Can any one believe that prices of used cars in Egypt is going down by 25% , which means I will lose 10.000 Egyptian money?

Car buyers made me think that I am stupid when I didn’t accept the 35.000 last week, when I was asking for 37.000 thinking that it’s a decent price for me and for the person who will buy the car, so .. now.. there is no more offers more than 32.500 for my car!

Prices are going down and down every week, and of course this is not happening to me only but to everyone who has an old used car, lots of people will lose their money just because they wanted to sale their used cars now. The weird thing is that the new brand car market is not touched yet! So I am keeping wondering why this happened in the used car market only?!

To have a market anywhere there is 3 basic things that should exists all together, these thing are the seller, the buyer and the goods. This is what makes me think that there is no used car market in Egypt now, and I definitely can say that the market is shutting down!

Car buyers could be the lucky one these days -if they exists- But where are they? Are they on the couch dreaming of lower prices everyday so they can get better cars for less price?!

I hope this problem will finish soon, because people here are crazy, when they sale they want the highest price, and when they buy the don’t want pay anything!

My Golf II 1990 is a very good condition car, I have renewed lots of parts under the car and also  replaced the whole engine with another used imported one.

Options & description: 1300 CC, AC , Center lock, MP3 player, paint of the factory from inside & outside.

If you came by this post and you would like to buy it then email me now and we can talk.

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here you can download some Volkswagen Golf II Wallpapers & background for your desktop. Just click on photos to open the download pages.

There is so many good VW Golf quality photo, I am sure you will love it!

Enjoy!

I am asking for 31000 Egyptian Money as a price for it regarding to the Egyptian Market for used cars.

Check out the photo gallery for my car and drop me an email if you would like to ask about anything related to it, or ask for my phone number to call me in Cairo so we can discuss about it!

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for thsoe who would like to sale thier Golf II cars, plz email me awith your cars details, and I will post an advertisment for your car for free!

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This gallery for the Egyptian Baaz Golf, from EgyTuner.com

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Golf II Gallery