> I don't know where you're coming from, but I've recently seen commercials for VW Golfs.

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

The Golf/Rabbit has been around for quite a long time but is still in production (Vorsprung durch technik - as they say). But as Marathon became Snickers over here I am sure that the Rabbit is becoming the Golf over there. Here it has never been called anything but the Golf.