The best cars ever made in Austria

The Volkswagen Golf Country was a more grown-up take on the Fiat Panda 4×4. Steyr-Puch supplied the four-wheel drive system for the Panda, and it was this same company that VW turned to for the Golf Country. Where the Panda 4×4 was built by Fiat, Steyr-Puch put the Golf Country together at its factory in Graz, Austria.

A basic Golf CL Syncro provided the base and Steyr-Puch then fitted uprated and raised suspension, underbody protection, bull bars, and a spare wheel mounted on a carrier outside the…