The Golf GTI is released in 1976. Its fuel-injected 1.6-litre delivering 110 hp, borrowed from the Audi 80 GTE, ensures performance and ease of driving for a price that no competitor can offer at the time. Here we have the first-generation Golf, with the facelift that took place in 1980, which brings larger taillights, and not a 1976 model year, as mentioned on the Whitebox box.
This model reproduced by Whitebox is sometimes packaged in a different box (“Generation GTI”), to lower its price. This box remains made of Plexiglas and the die cast model is exactly the same, whether it is a Generation GTI or a Whitebox.