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Golf is Carsguide Car of the Year

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Volkswagen Golf. It’s as simple as that in the final judgment for Carsguide Car of the Year in 2009.
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Safest Cars……

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Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the US insurance industry’s annual list of the safest new vehicles.

Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the US insurance industry’s annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms.

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Volkswagen’s Golf GTI meets 3 hot hatch competitors head-on

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From left to Right: Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart, Subaru WRX Impreza, Mazda3 MPS and Volkswagen Golf GTI

Can anything top Volkswagen’s Golf GTI for budget-priced thrills? JEZ SPINKS tests the contenders.
As famous pieces of paper go, it doesn’t quite carry the historical significance of the Magna Carta or the Dead Sea scrolls. Yet an internal memo written by a Volkswagen test engineer in 1973 sowed the seed for a car that would become a performance icon.

The memo was sent to only a handful of people and proposed a sporty variant of a new model due to launch under the name “Golf” the following year.
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