My father bought a used (1985) Golf MkII in 1995, right after the war for 1.500€. He drove it for 15 years and had someone offer him €1.700 for it after that time. The stories you can hear about this car around here are mind boggling.
What a great story! 🤩 Can you tell us some of those stories? We would also love to see some pics or a video from your Golf. Looking forward hearing from you.
@@DWREV i have a friend that uses a mk2 golf 1.6 diesel for work with 650 000km on the clock. And i mean USING it. Loading it with construction material and driving workers around 😆 While his mk4 golf is kept in the garage for rare occasions.
@@heisenfeis He never sold it. Look at it this way, imagine you bought a car 15 years ago. A car that was driven and wasnt kept in the garage and wasn't invested in. And then someone offers you more than what you paid for it. And we're talking about a car that has been produced in tens of millions, not some rarity. Inflation would be 43.1%, so it would come down to 2.146 Euros. Which would mean my father drove a car for 15 years and it only cost him 646 Euros, 43 Euros a year. What other car can you rent for 50 bucks/Euros a year?
Short answer. It was built in Sarajevo factory, and parts were smuggled over the fence for free - so it made it popular because it was basically free to maintain and every mechanic had all parts in stock bought for practically nothing.
Here in America they never made decent supply lines a VW is significantly more expensive to maintain than a Ford or Toyota. As a rule anything from Europe will cost you a arm to maintain.
I remember after the war, when they were proposing a new neutral flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the most sympathetic suggestion to me was to put the silhouette of the Golf II on the flag. And what they say, you can find spare parts for golf at the kiosk. I also have a golf II.
I have TAS Golf mk 1 , I inherited mine from my grandfather and ih has so much value to me I could never live without it. It's so nice to see someone making video about love for Golf in Bosnia, although I'm Croatian, Golf has special meaning for us too
Nice to see people appreciating what they have. In America we live in a throw away society. Maybe I’m just old school, but I like the past and what it represents. Thanks, RickGTI….. 🇺🇸🌴
I have had mine for 25 years. My sister's first car. I bought it from her. All original dents and all. 500k+ miles. Still going. Love that little car! 1985 VW Golf 1.8l 5spd 2 door.
My dad has VW Touran 1.9 TDI 2004 with over 700,000 kms, couple of tweaks here and there and it still runs like new, interior still looks amazing, but there are still a lot of people here who hate those cars for whatever reason, i have seen couple of Golf Mk4 and Mk5 with over 2 million kms, they were imported from Germany and turns out they were used for Taxi purposes
I learned to drive in a MK1 Golf. It belonged to my Grandfather who previously owned 3 new Beetles. My Grandmother bought it for him as a gift. He had no idea he was getting it. He loved that car as did I. When he passed away he willed it to my Mother who then taught me to drive in it. Since then I've owned numerous Golf GTi's and Golf R's and now both my daughters each one a VW Polo (that I bought for them) and my wife just bought a new T-Cross three weeks ago. VW's have been a massive part of our family for well over sixty years now and four generations. Your video brings back emotions. Thank you
In México the golfs are very popular too. There's something about these cars that you fell in love with them. I've sold mine and months later I buy another one.
Sehr schöner Bericht und mal was neues.Wusste ich noch nicht ,daß Bosnien so ein VW Land ist.TAS Golf hab Ich scjon mal gesehen,,aber wusste nicht daß der aus Bosnien kommt.Sehr Interesant,auch die umgebauten getunten echt geil.Kanal abonniert.
We owned a Golf in the 80's and my dad traveled to Italy from Bosnia in 1990 to buy a Jetta which was stolen at the very start of the war. I ran across it couple of years later. I recognized it due to the stickers on the back of the car that I put there. Of course we had no recourse. I swore off VW since then and drove Honda's and Mercedes only however I had a change of heart recently. I actually went in to order a new Jetta a month ago. Hopefully I get to keep this one forever lol.
I'm in Canada and I have owned 3 generations of VW Jetta and my current mk4 wagon tdi is my favourite. It's fun searching for European exclusive parts to customize my car the way I want. Since my first VW I have only owned VW and it's never going to change.
Funny.. im in Canada too but after my first car which was a 90hp 1.8L mk3 golf, i bought 7 Hondas and never looked back. I do miss the iconic clack clack clack clack noise my golf made in reverse though lol.
Aside from TAS factory, I believe in Bosnia the Bosnians recognized that VW is indeed a Volks Wagen. A car for every day Joe, easy to fix, maintenance affordable, last long... a true people's car.
She is right you can find a golf 1 or golf 2 in every city, every street although they were even more common 10 years ago. Parts for the golf are very affordable and easy to find also it’s much easier to fix when things break. Truly the car of Bosnia
I just saw this and it makes me miss My modified Golf MK2 back in South Africa. I dont know what it is but the GOLF MK2 just has a certain vibe that you just cant get from any other car. Also the fact that we VW driver will all appreciate one anothers creation is something truely remarkable !
Ich bin Bosnier und lebe in Deutschland. Ich würde gerne die Reaktion der Top-Leute von VW sehen, wenn sie dieses Video sehen. Was ist ihr Gefühl. Sind sie stolz und glücklich, wenn sie so etwas sehen? Natürlich fahre ich einen Volkswagen. 🥰
As I fellow Bosnian I am truly dissapointed that very few people use seat belts accordingly. The arrogance and the ignorance about how important seat belts are just astounding. It's just so embarresing to see them not use it.
Not only in Bosnia & Herzegovina, I'm from Macedonia, currently driving Golf Plus, and I can tell you first ever "status-car" perceived be my was Golf Mk1 (TAS) owned by my grandad sister back in the early 90s'. Back than Golf was something special because everyone drove Zastava cars around me and this yellow Golf Mk1 was something that stand out from the ordinary.
The main reason is because maintenance is cheap, average price of any spare part is roughly 20-50$. Second reason is because the spending standard is very low, average salary is like about 300$, so most of the people can't afford Bmw or Mercedes.
I'm a big fan of Volkswagen, I've been in that car since I was born. As soon as I was born, they put me in a Golf 2 and I spent a year of my life in that car while it was. My father that car was sold to my aunt in 2005, from 2005 to 2015 I grew up in a Golf 4 SDI 1999 with which I spent everything passed, learned to drive and the first car I drove. At the same time, I grew up in the Golf 2 in which I started my life, and in the Golf 5 TDI Edition from 2010, which was with my uncle at Taxi until 2018, where a cousin (son of the uncle) inherited that Golf. That Golf now has 760,000 kilometers and does not give up, suffering from 200 horsepower. In 2015, we owned a Skoda Octavia A5 4x4, it didn't let us down, we toured Europe with it, after that we had a Passat B6, also a nice car and never had any problems, and that's where I became an even bigger fan. In 2020, I thought my world was collapsing. My father sold the Passat, I had a lot of problems at home and my father bought a Toyota. I couldn't get used to that car at all, I wasn't satisfied with that car and I don't feel the same in other cars as I do in Volkswagen. At the time, I thought I wouldn't last any longer, but some problems are being solved. At the end of 2020, I met a man who is my best friend today because he is a Volkswagen fan and where VW brought us together, that man turned my life around, but all because of VW. A few months later, I realized my boyhood dream of driving a Golf 5 R32. After that, the Toyota started breaking down, we sold it and bought a VW Golf Mk7 with a panoramic roof. The Golf 7 has 330,000 kilometers and it doesn't give up, with that car I traveled to the VW meet in Imotski, I went to weddings, I traveled to my best friend in Slavonski Brod and had a nice drive, this year I fulfilled two more boyhood dreams that I went for a ride in Golf 5 GT Sport TDI R line with almost full equipment and that cousin took me for a ride in his Golf 5 GTI Edition 30, I've seen and driven a lot of VWs in my life and I can never get bored. I passed the driver's license for a car on a Golf 8, and a driver's license for a van on a VW LT46. I even worked at an authorized VW workshop. At home, I collect VW parts and VW jackets, t-shirts, pendants and the like... Simply, once a Volkswagen always a Volkswagen. Of course, I also have my page @best_of_volkswagen where I publish Volkswagens, I have met many VW fans through pages and VW Meets. Volkswagen forever 💙💙
Ihh, nije isto voziti Golf po Hercegovini u kamenjaru tamo ili po Srednjoj Bosni i planinama i usponima sa voznjom u Posavini na ravnici, gdje osim (mozda povremene) kaldrme, voznja i auto bas i nemaju neke izazove.
I had a 1991 mk2 Golf GTI 16v 3 door in oak green. I bought it in 1998 for about £7.5k and sold it a couple years later at just over £6k ! Now worth 15-20k easily so not the smartest decision ! I loved that car
Yugoslavia was very respectful country all over the world... Sadly, fooking politicians teared us apart. Now we live in 6 separate countries and also whole new world.
Please take note VW. Don’t go down the Mercedes route and make cars to a price. Keep your reputation as a builder of solid vehicles and you’ll keep your customer base. I’ve got an old Mk1 Golf diesel with just over 500,000 kms on her. My dad bought her new in 1982. She’s my daily driver and this Christmas, I’ll be driving from Lisbon, Portugal to Madrid in Spain and back.
My father owned a Golf 2 1.6 gl in the Nineties and i remember it as the best car,it also had a particular plastic smell inside,very nice.And of course now i drive a Golf.
Got a golf 2 as my first car a couple months back and I love it, when it runs properly that is. Its quite the fixer upper as its got carburetor problems, vacuum leak that I cannot find and some electrical difficulties between the temp sensor and heater, but hey, it's something.
Brazil loves Volkswagen vehicles too, it's hard to break and if it breaks, everybody knows how to repair. Of course we like to tune them too, here in Brazil it's common to see VW's Up, Gol, Polo and Golf tuned at Stage 3
I bought a 1985 Golf2 with 190k, sold it with 390k. 15 years later the buyer moved across from me, he still had it with 1 million plus on it!.. BTW it was Deisel 5speed manual
I love my 04' Passat 1.8T Wagon 5-Speed. Being a family man here in Wisconsin most are surprised seeing The Granny Sleeper lift up it's skirt and run.... 😉😁 I see you got Hoosier tires that came from up North from where I live. 😉
That's cool and all but here in South Africa we love the Golf aswell so much that we made the MK1 Golf untill 2008 we have MK1 Golf's with 1.4i , 1.6i and limited 1.8i engines ,and it's cool that only we have them and all of them are made here in South Africa by Volkswagen of South Africa and also we have zero diesel Golf MK1's & MK2's also no Automatics
Absolutely beautiful, VW is all I drive. Have no clue what initially got me into them, once you close the door you'll never drive an import. Solid little cars, super fun when massively overpowered too!
Y yo que pensaba que México era de los países más fanáticos de Volkswagen, al punto de ser el país que tuvo el honor de producir el último Volkswagen Tipo 1 Sedán del mundo en el 2003, pero los Bosnios nos ganan con el Golf, saludos a Bosnia desde México.
Also very popular in South Africa but with the economy being what it is, the Golf has been swapped out for the Polo. The MK1 was very popular with the basic body plan being sold into the early 2010s as the VW Citi Golf. It was eventually replaced by the Polo vivo which is basically the previous gen polo
If you know of a highly tuned Golf (or a Golf with a mind-boggling figure on the Odo) somewhere in South Africa, write to us on rev.community@dw.com. We might even come by to film it!
I'm a hardcore VW lover...right now have a b5.5 Passat and a Mk4 golf ..had a couple Jettas , one a Wolfsburg, and am about to get my Mk4 golf a rebuild
Have you seen the crash test of MK2? It's a coffin on wheels... The worst engine that MK2 was equiped with was 1.3 NZ Digijet. Other than that it's quite ok vehicle.
My older kid drives a D2 Audi A8L Quattro inherited from her grand uncle. It is very sharp, all blacked-out with stainless trim, and the Eastern Europeans that see it call it "Mafia Machine." For laughs, the original Alaska license plates get shown to some people who are surprised to see that part of the car's history
My grandma worked there before the war , she retired at 55 got a pension and apartment of her own. Today we retire at 67 and are never able to afford an apartment.
Toyota is still the best reliable brand and last longer that no European or American brand can match with... Chinese, Korean and others are still far behind to be honest against some American, European and Japanese TBH😹😹😹
Kia and Hyundai have leapfrogged pretty much all American manufacturers in reliability and even Honda is behind Kia now. I drive a 2013 V6 Honda Accord coupe and I never had to do any repairs on it but if i was buying a car today I would go with Kia over Honda but Toyota is still number 1.
I am a black woman my Bosnian boyfriend got me driving a MK7 stage two tune, I like it ,don’t really see much black people driving them or people in general driving the golfs in KY.
Well, we hope the people at VW are listening to you. A Wörthersee revival in Bosnia might be a great idea! Although let's first see how their event at Wolfsburg goes...
Because we don't have money for better car, only because this one thing. We become 250$ from a job in one month, but meet, oil and all other things coast more than in Germany.
