> I knew that a VW rabbit was the US equivalent of a Golf!

I don't know where you're coming from, but I've recently seen commercials for VW Golfs. (The one with the two guys who pick up a chair from a curb side and then drop it off again because it smells is a Golf commercial.) I've heard of the VW Rabbit, but never seem one, or any advertisements for it.

Perhaps this is something from the old Beetle era. In that case, I wasn't born yet.