VW Golf IV TDI Hits 450,000 miles / 725,500 km in the UK
28 May 2012, 16:30 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / One British VW Golf driver can be extremely proud of his car, as the vehicle has managed to cover 450,000 miles / 725,500 km until now and, according to the owner, is is still running strong. The...
US-Bound Volkswagen CC R-Line Gets Golf GTI Engine
28 May 2012, 13:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Volkswagen CC may look sleek and sporty, but it’s basically a Euro-spec Passat underneath, the previous generation of the car was called the Passat CC, let’s not forget. VW have deci...
VW Bus Can Be Mean
28 May 2012, 12:29 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The VW Bus might have been the favorite transportation means of the Hippie generation. but, over the years, there have been some who have modified this vehicle in a way that offers anything else tha...
Volkswagen Planning Crossover All-Terrain Golf
25 May 2012, 15:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As if there weren’t enough variants of the Golf and cars based on its platform, Volkswagen are apparently going to make an all-terrain crossover Golf. According to Autocar, its styling and phi...
VW Officials Apologize for Faulty DSG Gearbox in China
25 May 2012, 14:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Volkswagen’s DSG gearboxes being generally bulletproof, Chinese customers have had problems with their DSG-equipped cars since last year. VW officials have acknowledged the faults, hav...
Spyshots: Volkswagen Golf 7 GTI
23 May 2012, 13:26 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volkswagen is currently working hard to complete the development of the Golf GTI Mk VII, with the vehicle expected to be launched later this year. Our spy photographers have recently caught a protot...
VW Up Rides on 17-inch Tomason Wheels
18 May 2012, 13:55 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The VW Up is a mystery to us when it comes to the tuning world’s point of view: this car has a solid technical base and a quality interior, but lacks any trace of fun, which would make it the ...
Volkswagen Polo R WRC Street to Become Production Car in 2013
17 May 2012, 14:27 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / VW used its dedicated Worthersee festival in Austria to showcase the new Polo R WRC Street concept car, with the vehicle set to become a production reality next year. The vehicle, which draws (vi...
Volkswagen UK: Standard DAB Radio from Polo to Phaeton
15 May 2012, 15:42 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / VW’s British arm today announced that it is introducing DAB radio as a standard feature from the Polo to the Phaeton (no, the Up isn’t mentioned) in an effort to meet customer demand for...
Wolfgang Durheimer, Bugatti and Bentley CEO, Moving to Audi
14 May 2012, 13:08 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The VW Group holds a number of extremely influential executives within its boards and Wolfgang Durheimer, the current CEO of Bugatti and Bentley, is one of them. It seems that the company wants to m...
Toyota Knocks GM off the Top Spot as The World's Largest Automaker
13 May 2012, 17:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in 2011, Toyota was knocked off the top spot as the world’s largest automaker, by GM. This was due in part to the recession which had also hit Japan and its industry, coupled with the des...
Volkswagen Golf R32 Colored Using Golf Balls?
11 May 2012, 13:15 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Do you like the visual treatment received by the Mk IV Golf R32 in the adjacent video? We do and we think we know how the car got it. The owner must’ve taken the hot hatch out on a golf course...
Couple Achieve Extreme Economy in a VW Passat TDI
8 May 2012, 16:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volkswagen TDIs are the most highly appreciated diesels in the States, and with good reason. John and Helen Taylor, about whom you may have heard back in 2009 when they achieved a record of 67.9 US ...
2012 VW Passat Crash Commercial: My Dad’s Going to Kill Me
8 May 2012, 09:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen’s witty marketing experts have finally found a way to use the fact that the 2012 Passat was named an IIHS top safety pick in an original way. This has to be one of, if not the, o...
Volkswagen Passat R-Line Launched in Europe
2 May 2012, 16:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Not to be mistaken with the sporty ‘R’ model, the ‘R-Line’ is nothing more than a mid-level trim for the new, facelifted Passat, with a few touches to set it apart from lesse...
Volkswagen Reveals Three Ideas from People's Car Project in China
2 May 2012, 15:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen apparently had 119,000 ideas submitted to its People’s car Project that launched in China 11 months ago, but only came forth with three of them, and we have to admit that we’r...
Good Start to the Year for the Volkswagen Group
26 Apr 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The VW group is off to a great start in 2012, with excellent sales and revenue figures for the first quarter. They have announced a 26.3% increase in their sales revenues for the first three mon...
New Volkswagen Lavida Debuts in Beijing
24 Apr 2012, 09:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Following in the wake of the previous Chinese designed Lavida, which sold 700.000 cars, VW is showing off their new car. The 2012 Lavida gets the new family face which bares a striking resemblance t...
VW E-Bugster Speedster Concept Unveiled in Beijing
23 Apr 2012, 09:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The first set of pictures and details of the new E-Bugster have been released ahead of its debut at the Beijing Auto Show. The concept has been lowered by 90mm and lengthened by 30mm in an effort to...
The VW Bus, always Happy
12 Apr 2012, 15:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / See the little hippie machine in the adjacent image? The poor Bus is turned upside down in the middle of the street, but does it look sad? No, not at all. This should be a lesson to us all: no matte...