Volkswagen?

The name. In the U.S. the 1st generation golf was called a rabbit because Americans thought naming a car "golf" was a dumb idea.

The difference is what market they are sold in. They are the same car. 

I think they are the same car.

A golf is when you play. A rabbit is a animal with long ears.

The nameplate. I owned two Rabbits, a 1979 and 1982. The exact same car was sold outside the US as the Golf. I don't know if the Rabbit name is still used anywhere else, but in the US, it's now the Golf.

Golf is a game played with sticks and a little white ball. A Rabbit is a furry little rodent with long ears.

The spelling...basically. With both, they both go into the hole? Rabbit is more a Canada/Euro branding, and Golf is a U.S. branding and Polo a Mexican, South America branding "I believe...and did not really care"

. Rabbit came first,(as a replacement for the Beetle...totally new car with FWD, front mounted coolant cooled motor which differed from the air cooled rear engine of the Beetle) that is what I had before I even heard of Golf or Polo so I was only concerned with Rabbit.(could also be marketing to different regions). I had Rabbit, Golf is now showing up as it is the successor to the Rabbit being newer. Jetta also came out as a deluxe version of Rabbit...as they overlapped...in production years as the Rabbit was ending it was being replaced by the Jetta. While the "Rabbit name" was popular, it could not match the Beetle in being an endearing car. It did not look like a Rabbit.

For as much interest that I had in the car at the time I had it, but have it no more. Many pieces were identical. Some were not.

The auto salvage yard would tell me what car years and models would fit my car. If it mentioned Jetta or Golf or Polo, those had identical parts.

Google can tell you better. Ask Siri

.After Beetle, VW figured it needed another cute creature so IT "named it" Rabbit. (Owners named it Beetle, Bug, LoveBug, SlugBug, etc) which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT than a manufacturer naming it. It was iconic, the NEWBEETLE will not catch that same magic.,,,and neither did Rabbit. But that is what they were trying for.

I've never heard of the rabbit but i've heard of golf. I don't know much about volkswagon though