Approximate cost in USD: $18,000
Although it’s had a bit of a branding identity crisis here in the States (you might remember it as the Rabbit, then the Golf, then the Rabbit…), Golf is the prototypical modern compact car. “VW showed the rest of the world how to do it with the golf with styling that was appealing even though it was more or less just a box,” says Visnic. “They really honed the formula of how to do that and make it appeal all over the world, repeatedly year after year in a way that only the Germans can do it.”
