Volkswagen Up!

Volkswagen’s Up! first arrived on the scene in 2012 as a spiritual successor to the Lupo city car. An updated version of the car has now been revealed ahead of an official world debut at next month’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show. Among the changes is a new engine, an expanded list of...

During the early days of development for Volkswagen’s Up minicar, it was widely thought Audi would get its own version of the car to serve as the gateway for a new range of ecological models similar to those offered by BMW’s i sub-brand. The rumor mill went into overdrive when Audi...

For many drivers, parallel parking a car is the hardest part of passing a driver’s licensing exam. Even licensed drivers often struggle with mastering the art of parallel parking, since these days it’s a little-used skill (in the United States, anyway). German stunt driver Ronny...

Making an urban runabout into an exciting proposition isn't all that easy; even when cute or futuristic, they're still mainly meant to dodge low-speed traffic and park in shoe boxes. But Volkswagen is trying to put some spice in the exclamatory up!'s sauce for Geneva with a quartet of tweaked...

Yesterday the covers came off the five-door version of the new Volkswagen up! minicar, which is set to join its three-door sibling in European showrooms later this year. While the five-door model doesn’t really offer any more excitement than the three-door, a new sporty ‘GT’...

After years of Up! city-car concepts, Volkswagen has revealed a new production 2012 VW Up. And the vehicle it formally unveiled, at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, will be on sale in Europe early next year. During its various concept iterations, the Up went from a rear-engine layout to a more...

It’s been four years since we first saw the original Up! Concept, and now, just a few weeks out from its debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, Volkswagen has taken the wraps off the production version of its new minicar destined for sale in Europe early next year. Over that time the Up! has...

An all-electric minicar, a New New Beetle, and a sporty convertible--the Volkswagen Up! platform, which will be the basis for the next-generation Lupo, could spawn all of these, and more. Today we have new spy shots of the prototype testing in Europe, revealing little, but confirming much. The car...

Just weeks after GM announced it would be building electric motors for some of its future hybrids and electric vehicles in-house, Volkswagen has followed suit and announced it too will build its own electric powertrains. The German automaker’s electric motors will span the entire Volkswagen...

Volkswagen looks to be returning to its roots with the recently unmasked up! concept. A rear-engined, three-door, four-seat city car, the up! evokes many of the key design elements and emotions of the original Beetle. A unique feature of the concept is the collapsible/removable seating. Every seat...