3 Oct 2012, 12:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Intersections, of any kind, are very tricky to negotiate in crowded towns, where there are lots of cars trying to do the same thing at the same time, and as quickly as possible.
This is why lots...
2 Oct 2012, 09:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Every VW official was smiling from ear to ear as they unveiled the brand new production Golf VII and the concept for next year’s Golf GTI. Everything with a VW badge on the front sells well be...
2 Oct 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Volkswagen Phaeton is ex-CEO Ferdinand Piech’s lasting legacy with the company. He wanted a car which could do everything very well, in order to beat the established competition.
The c...
1 Oct 2012, 09:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We were wondering when all the spyshots of Volkswagen’s ultra-frugal XL1 would materialize into some concrete news. Well, according to whatcar.com, VW board member, Professor Ulrich Hackenberg...
1 Oct 2012, 07:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / VW officials have just confirmed that a higher-powered Up! GT, as well as an all-electric version of the car are on their way, and will be making a public appearance very soon. The first to come wil...
30 Sep 2012, 10:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Golf will soon enter its seventh generation, launched relatively soon after the sixth, which was just a reengineered version of the fifth. Sounds confusing, right? It was the same for us when we...
28 Sep 2012, 11:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Slightly more power and quite a lot more economy is what Volkswagen is giving the seventh-generation Golf GTI. The car made its debut as a pre-production concept at the Paris Motor Show.
As a con...
25 Sep 2012, 11:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Some car crashes are spectacular than others, even without any of the people involved getting injured in the process. This Volkswagen Passat driver, from Russia, fails to see the Suzuki Grand Vitara...
25 Sep 2012, 07:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The design philosophy behind all recent products of the Volkswagen Group has been to keep things simple clean, opting not to ‘overdesign’ any of their offerings. The main advocate for th...
22 Sep 2012, 16:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Everybody knows about the BMW Isetta and the Peal P50 these days. For a while, people ignored them and though they were just novelty items for collectors, too strange and impractical to be used by r...
21 Sep 2012, 12:01 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You have to give it up to VW for the wonderful work they do with their commercials. From the most boring but well built family saloons, they managed to pull amusing ads every single time.
This ti...
20 Sep 2012, 12:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Citroen is a force to be reckoned with, in the world of WRC, which they have all-but dominated in the last decade. However, in order to reach these heights of success and glory, the company has had ...
19 Sep 2012, 14:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Today, Porsche announced they have begun assembly of the all-new 2013 Boxster two-seater roadster at the Osnabruck plant, which actually belongs to Volkswagen.
The previous versions of the Boxste...
19 Sep 2012, 13:47 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has announced it will be selling a four-door subcompact sedan known simply as the Polo in the Middle East. The car is actually a Polo-based sedan, which will be imported from India.
Th...
19 Sep 2012, 08:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / At last year’s Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen showed off a special concept version of their Amarok pick-up, called the ‘Canyon’. Now, they have translated that concept into a specia...
18 Sep 2012, 15:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has launched the new Up! city car in Australia, where this diminutive model will be available for AUD13,990 starting on October 6th.
This will only get you the base car with a three-do...
18 Sep 2012, 07:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / New for the 2014 model year in the US, Volkswagen is finally going to bring the latest car in a line that perhaps has made them an iconic brand. It’s the instantly recognizable Beetle Cabriole...
14 Sep 2012, 15:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you take the VW Up! and show it to a Texan, he’ll say “that’s not a car, that’s a golf car.” But the Up! is plenty big enough for the constricted city traffic of Ind...
12 Sep 2012, 11:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has taken a lot of criticism over for the sixth-generation Golf GTI. The hatchback took a more leisurely attitude to being hot, and as a result only had 210 hp, not enough to take on the ...
9 Sep 2012, 20:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Every year, we said that auto shows got better and better, that is until the crisis hit and things cooled down a bit. In a few weeks, we’ll be in Paris, the capital of love and… baguett...