Volkswagen EA276
When it was clear that the Beetle was not going to live on forever the engineers at VW started to think of alternatives. Ultimately the Golf was the result of all the considerations, but in 1969 a very interesting prototype was presented, EA276. The boxy shape of the Golf is already somehow there, (although Giugiaro put his own mark on it four years later), and the car for the first time has front wheel drive.
The engine however is still a four cylinder air cooled boxer and with 44 BHP it could reach 130 kph. It remarkable to see this car as one of the real pioneers of Volkswagen’s success with the Golf.
The car is shown here at the Essen Technoclassica in 2004