Volkswagen presented the new Scirocco R for the first time at the start of the 2009 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. A sports car without compromise and a race track that demands everything of the driver will be meeting together this weekend.
Approximately one year after the market launch of the third Scirocco generation, Volkswagen is [...]
Tucked away in a corner of McCormick Place was this custom WRX STI built in as part of a cooperative effort between Subaru and Travis Pastrana’s race team, Vermont SportsCar. The car commemorates Pastrana’s third consecutive Rally America National Championship, and although a one-off, many of the parts on the car can be purchased through [...]
According to a report on Auto Express, Volkswagen plans to debut a new eco-friendly concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September that could potentially rival the Chevy Volt-based Opel Ampera in Europe. Unlike the automaker’s previous green concepts like the hybrid Golf TwinDrive and diesel-powered BlueSport Roadster, the new and as-yet unnamed concept will [...]
Germany only gets its own top-tier international auto show every other year, with the Frankfurt Motor Show alternating with the Paris salon. So when the circus rolls into town, you can bet Germany’s giant auto industry will embrace the opportunity to reveal their latest. Audi’s tipped to unveil its A5 Sportback and revised A8, Mercedes [...]
Europeans just got another turbocharged diesel engine option for the Volkswagen Scirocco, leaving us even more jealous than before that the sporty hatchback won’t be making its way to America. The new powerplant is the same unit that VW recently introduced in the Golf GTD, and it offers up the same 168 horsepower and 258 [...]
Automotive News Europe reports today that Porsche and Volkswagen have finally cleared the way for combining their brands under a single operation. The new carmaking group would have no less than 10 brands under one roof, though the “independence of all brands and explicitly also of Porsche shall be ensured.” VW will be bring its [...]
As part of a far-reaching interview with Stefan Jacoby, Volkswagen’s North American CEO, Automotive News has fleshed out some new details about the German automaker’s forthcoming Chattanooga, Tennessee-built sedan, as well as the potential viability of the Polo subcompact in the States.
In the main, Jacoby allowed that the unnamed Chattanooga-built sedan will hit the market [...]
Here at Autoblog reports regularly cross our desks suggesting all sorts of contorted deals supposedly being brokered between automakers. This one’s in bed with that one, that one’s selling the other but retaining a minority interest, another one’s starting a joint venture with yet another while buying part of its competitor. And we try to [...]