Volkswagen had produced the A1 Golf/Rabbit Pickup truck in South Africa until 2006 as the Citi Golf Bakkie, and in Europe until 1996 as the 1st generation Volkswagen Caddy.

Volkswagen had conceived the A1 pickup truck originally as an experiment, along with an A1 station wagon, Volkswagen’s head office didn’t want to go through with the production of either one, but Volkswagen of America wanted to conceive the pickup truck for production in their newly-acquired Westmoreland, Pennsylvania assembly plant.

When the production of the A1 was halted in the Westmoreland, Pennsylvania and in the Puebla, Mexico assembly plants to retool in preparation for and begin production of the A2 for the North American market; the tooling for the A1 pickup truck was shipped to a plant in South Africa and a plant in Europe to continue production in those market until the 1990’s and the 2000’s.

Pictured below is a late-model A1 pickup truck located in a town in Northern Greece near the Turkish, Bulgarian, and Macedonian borders.

Parked a couple spaces back from this A1 Golf/Rabbit pickup truck is a T2 Transporter/Microbus pickup truck model.