2006
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Volkswagen has unveiled its plans for the coming years, including the lofty goal of selling a million units a year in the U.S. by 2018. The one million figure is expected to be comprised of 800,000 Volkswagens and 200,000 Audis and the target is being approached by developing smaller and cheaper cars for the Volkswagen brand and pushing Audi into the same league as BMW and Mercedes. While the weak dollar has seen foreign car manufacturers suffer in recent times, Volkswagen is working to combat this by building a plant in the U.S and is currently in talks with several states to determine the...
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Holden Coupe 60 inspired by former Pontiac design?About three years ago GM officials came up with a number of designs for vehicles based on the RWD Zeta architecture but uncertainty about looming fuel-economy standards at the time put all these projects on hold. Some of the plans included designs for a RWD Impala sedan as well as for a new Pontiac...
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Volkswagen launches Scirocco microsite and teasers
Volkswagen has given us an early look at some of the styling elements of its upcoming Scirocco hatch with the release of these new teaser images on the official microsite for the new car. Expected to make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month, the new model will officially go on sale in...
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World’s first RHD Ford GT
It’s no secret Australians love a good V8 muscle car but we never thought there would be enough demand Down Under for Ford’s stunning GT supercar that a company would actually starting converting them to right-hand-drive for the local market. Actually, two companies, Crossover Car...
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VW considers diesel powerplant for U.S. Phaeton
The Phaeton limo may have been a major flop for Volkswagen but officials are keen to see the launch of a successor, especially in the U.S. where it could pose as a technical and environmental flagship for the carmaker. The original model was priced similarly to BMWs and Audis but it wore a humble...
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Volkswagen Phaeton may return to U.S.
The Phaeton limo may have been a major flop for Volkswagen but officials are keen to the launch of a successor. The car was priced similarly to BMWs and Audis but it wore a humble VW badge, and there was nothing particularly exciting or innovative about the car either. It had mundane styling, poor...
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To reach its targeted production rate of ten million vehicles per year by 2018 Volkswagen will be implementing several major revisions to its current platform designs to help reduce development costs. VW is developing four new architectures that will eventually spawn vehicles for most of the VW Group brands, including new designs for Lamborghini, Audi and Bentley. The first new platform will be a transverse-engine architecture dubbed the ‘MQB’, which will be used for small-lower-medium and upper-medium models. This architecture could eventually be used for over six million...
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Preview: 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco
When VW first lifted the covers off the Iroc concept at last year’s Paris Motor Show our first thoughts was here is a car that would look stunning just the way it was. Unfortunately VW’s new CEO Martin Winterkorn didn’t agree and he subsequently sent designers back to the drawing...
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VW loses more than €10,000 per Phaeton?
Volkswagen’s Phaeton has long been pegged as the answer to a question nobody asked. The car cost as much as its luxury brand rivals but came with a humble VW badge, mundane styling, plus poorer dynamics and a much heavier chassis than its Audi A8 cousin. However, none of this hasn’t...
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Updated Volkswagen Golf Mark VI preview
Click here for all the official information and pictures for the 2009 Volkswagen Golf Mark VI Following last month’s spotting of the next-gen Volkswagen Golf testing in California’s Death Valley, new, more accurate renderings of the car have been created that includes new details taken...
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Volkswagen Golf GTI W12 650 - not your dad's Golf
Audi wasn’t the only carmaker showing off an official tuner special at this week’s Wörthersee 2007 Auto Show. Sister brand Volkswagen has unveiled its hotted up Golf GTI W12 650 concept car, a race inspired hot hatch packing a Biturbo W12 engine developing peak power of 650hp (477kW)...
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Updated: More images of VW’s new Phaeton
Volkswagen will launch its facelifted Phaeton limo during this week’s Geneva Motor Show with a host of minor revisions that are unlikely to stir any major excitement. The VW flagship gets a set of new headlamps, more standard equipment and a range of new diesel engines. The big-banger V10 TDI...
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Renderings of the next-generation Maserati coupe have turned up, ahead of the car’s reveal next week and its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Italian website Quattroruote reports that the car picks up the simple tag “Coupe,” and these images suggest that Maserati has dropped Giugiaro’s Italdesign in favor of Pininfarina for the new model. Though styling has been inspired by Maserati’s Quattroporte sedan, the Coupe will be getting a much more aggressive look and a unique rear-end. The car also grows in all dimensions over its predecessor and will...
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Aston Martin launches Vanquish S Ultimate Edition and offers manual conversion for existing customers
Though production of Aston Martin’s flagship Vanquish coupe is nearing its end, the prestige label has announced it will be building a limited run of just 40 examples of a new Vanquish S Ultimate Edition. The cars will be handcrafted at the company’s Newport Pagnell production facility...
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2006 BMW Alpina B7 Will Make A Showing In Chicago
Though the BMW Alpina B7 was launched almost a year ago, the highly tuned performance limo will get an official unveiling at next week’s Chicago Auto Show. Established back in 1964, Alpina is a German tuning house based in Bavaria and is an official and approved tuner of BMW cars, taking the...
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VW Launches The Golf GTI Edition 30
It’s hard to believe, but the famous GTI hot hatch has made it into 30 years of production after the release of the original 1976 version. To mark the occasion, Volkswagen has released a production version of the GTI Edition 30 concept car that was unveiled several months ago. Sticking to the...
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Spy Shots: VW Phaeton facelift
Volkswagen will be updating the Phaeton luxury sedan to help boost sales of the in the light of new models and expected updates from its main rivals, BMW and Mercedes Benz, ahead of an all new model due in 2009. The changes to the current car will be mainly cosmetic, with a redesigned front grille...
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Top ten vehicle depreciation list
Don’t you hate it when you find out the car you’ve just bought will lose more than half its value in under three years? This is the problem facing many car buyers, and one that can greatly increase the overall running costs of a car. Edmunds has released lists of the top ten cars most...
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Platform sharing seems to be the route most car manufacturers are taking in these days of parts rationalization and cost cutting. Just as General Motors Company's [NYSE:GM] Zeta platform will give birth to the new Camaro and GTO (here’s hoping), the American auto giant's smaller rear-drive Kappa platform will form the basis of a new roadster concept called the Opel GT (Vauxhall GT in U.K.) for European markets and as the Saturn Sky for the U.S., to go along side the Kappa-based Pontiac Solstice which is already in production. Both of the new cars will have a performance version running...
