Volkswagen has just sent out one of its latest models to tackle the Nürburgring. While that in and of itself is not necessarily newsworthy, the fact that it was their upcoming midsize pickup truck, is. While the firm’s new Scirocco GT24-CNG is set to contest the 24 hour race at Germany’s Nordschliefe, spotting their new [...]
Volkswagen just announced pricing for its hot new diesel-engined GTI brother, the Golf GTD, at least in the UK. The new performance diesel will start at £21,850 RRP when it arrives in British dealerships on June 22. That MSRP is for the three-door, six-speed manual model. Add £585 for the five-door model and £1,305 for [...]
That the Volkswagen Routan has been a dismal failure is probably one of the worst kept secrets in the industry, but until now, few have taken stock of just how poorly the badge-engineered minivan was selling.
The idea was fairly straightforward, if a tad ill-conceived: take a Dodge Caravan, slap on a fresh face and a [...]
Phase 1: Dominate your class in endurance racing. Phase 2: Continue to dominate your class in endurance racing, only this time do it without gasoline. That seems to be the game plan with the Volkswagen Group’s racing programs, so after winning at Le Mans five times with the gasoline-powered Audi R8 racer (punctuated only by [...]
Regardless of what a product actually is when it hits the auto industry these days, it apparently must have the term “sport” attached to it in some way.
This marketing practice is applied liberally, across all vehicle classes. Sedans aren’t sedans anymore, they’re sports sedans. Same goes for wagons and hatchbacks. Heck, even sport utility vehicles [...]
Over the last several years, few automotive stories have held as much interest as the global fight between Toyota and General Motors for worldwide sales supremacy. Don’t look now, but there’s a new combatant hailing from Germany ready to take the reigns: Volkswagen. However, VW’s ascendancy has less to do with the German automaker’s output [...]
In the States, Volkswagen’s Tiguan has been struggling to find buyers, but over in Europe, there the cute-ute has been going gangbusters, enjoying wait-list levels of popularity.
No surprise, then, that it’s Europe that will get a racier looking model first. Dubbed “R Line,” the pumped-up Tiguan is primarily an appearance package, not really a full-blown [...]
What automaker isn’t trying to cash in on the iCraze? Most are scrambling to include iPod and iPhone integration into their newest vehicles, and many have tried to mimic the look and feel of the Apple devices with their latest concepts. The “people’s car” has as good a claim as any other automaker, and Volkswagen [...]