“How to Build a Dune Buggy” Essential Manual Is Back
3 Jun 2014, 17:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The classic Dune Buggy (Beach Buggy) is probably the most popular recreational vehicle ever. They’re usually made out of old Volkswagen Beetle models and their sole purpose is to offer you ton...
Ferrari 412 Becomes a "Pickup Truck Sports Car"
2 Jun 2014, 12:28 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When you say Ferrari you think of so many other things but a truck, or at least that’s what most of us do, anyway. The mad scientists at the London Motor Group thought they’ll surprise u...
Volkswagen Golf Sportsvan Commercial: Mom and Dad Get Frisky
28 May 2014, 08:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A new Golf has just been launched in Germany. No, it's not a 400 horsepower hot hatch like the concept they showed in Beijing last month. It's something that's simpler and more practi...
2015 Volkswagen Golf GTI POV Drive
23 May 2014, 18:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Porsche has the 911, Chevy the Corvette and Volkswagen… the Golf GTI. It's their trademark car, one that gets all their best toys and evolves linearly with every generation. This also me...
VW Reveals First 2015 Passat Sketches and 240 HP 2.0 TDI Twin-Turbo
21 May 2014, 18:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / German media is positively buzzing with news from Volkswagen, who has released the first sketches and details of its new Passat mid-sized sedan. As expected, their car is a technological show of str...
Word from the 'Ring: VW Still Undecided on Golf R Estate
21 May 2014, 10:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Our spies stationed at the Nurburgring have sent us fresh information about what the Germans are up to. A second prototype for the upcoming Golf R Estate has once again been seen going round the tra...
Next Volkswagen Phaeton Will Be a Chrysler 300 Rival
19 May 2014, 18:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Phaeton is a car made from the same mould as the first generation Touareg. Before these two ground-braking cars arrived, the idea of a premium Volkswagen was unfathomable and the brand probably ...
Classic VW Beetle Converted Into EV by Nigerian Student
19 May 2014, 18:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You find today electric or hybrid vehicles out of you financial reach? Why don’t you attend some vehicle engineering classes and build one yourself as this Nigerian student proved its possible...
745 HP Golf R Smokes a Lamborghini Gallardo
19 May 2014, 17:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Volkswagen Golf has had it up to here with all your supercar nonsense. It's taken steroids buffed up and is here to whoop every Italian tush on the block. After teaching the Ferrari hors...
How to Spend Your Retirement: VW Beetle Covered in 50,000 Pieces of Oak
19 May 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Even since the first Beetle came to the world in the 1940s, we’ve seen all sorts of shapes and sizes of the concept, from the Porsche 911 to the examples car aficionados customize beyond recog...
Oettinger Makes a Killer 400 HP Golf R · Video
15 May 2014, 21:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Here on autoevolution, we’re big fans of getting more bang for the buck and performance underdogs. That twin-turbo V6 powered Golf R we showed you at the beginning of the week is a good exampl...
2015 e-Golf: the First Electric Volkswagen Coming to the US
13 May 2014, 19:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen's ventures into the eco market in America have so far included a hybrid version of the Jetta and sporadic success with clean diesels. Now, the German car company is going full-electr...
2015 Volkswagen Polo GTI Rendered
6 May 2014, 08:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has given the whole Polo family of superminis a makeover, but there is one important new model that's still not ready. We're talking about the hot GTI, which should be out early...
Test Drive an Amarok, Win STIHL Chainsaws
5 May 2014, 12:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What could possibly be manlier than buying a pickup truck and filling it up with chainsaws? How about buying a pickup truck that's already filled with chainsaws for a change. This next offer...
Golf 7 R Onboard POV Autobahn Test
5 May 2014, 11:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Schoner Golf of the moment is of course the new R, based on the seventh generation compact car platform. It's the sort of hot hatch that can do seemingly everything and has armies of fans d...
All-New Volkswagen Website Revealed: Great for Tablets and Phones
3 May 2014, 12:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Looking for a specific car on vw.com has always been an experience akin to playing games on a phone from the 90s. You had to pick from a long list of car names, most of which regular folks knew noth...
All-New Volkswagen Passat Fully Revealed by Chinese Spy Photos
29 Apr 2014, 13:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We didn't expect the next generation Volkswagen Passat, a car eagerly anticipated by European fans, would actually be scooped in China. But that's just what happened here. Chinese spy phot...
Volkswagen Bulli: Coming in 2019 as Beetle Derivative
28 Apr 2014, 13:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Every time we ask old-school VW fans what they think should be the next car built by the Germans, the Bulli microbus usually pops un in the conversation. But despite unveiling a concept back in earl...
MTM-tuned VW Golf R Churns Out 360 BHP
28 Apr 2014, 13:32 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You've probably heard of MTM before. The German tuning company specializes in turning run-of-the-mill Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda models into incredibly fast road machines. MTM's l...
New Volkswagen Beetle Tested by Sexy Anastasia Tregubova
28 Apr 2014, 12:54 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There is more than one editor around the office who claims to be the resident Russian women expert. And while our opinions might be varied on what's the best hair color or dress size, we all ag...