Volkswagen News

The Volkswagen ID R electric race car will attempt to set a new lap record for EVs at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, and testing is already under way. Following a debut of the updated and tweaked version of the ID R for the Nürburgring, VW got right to work at the racetrack. The team hit...

Check out how Volkswagen changed the ID R electric race car to attack the Nürburgring Nordschleife, including changing the body work and adding a Formula One-inspired DRS.

Volkswagen announced its intentions to tackle the Nürburgring Nordschleife with its ID R electric race car in January, and on Wednesday, the company revealed the car set to take on the Green Hell. We've seen the ID R electric race car before when it smashed the outright record at the Pikes...

VW CEO Scott Keogh said the chance to sell a small pickup is "pressing itself a little more now" after Tarok debut 2019 New York auto show.

Volkswagen's 3-row Atlas crossover SUV is about to spawn a smaller model with only two rows, a preview of which came last year in the form of the Atlas Cross Sport Concept. The 2-row Atlas has now been in revealed, albeit for the Chinese market where it will be known as the Teramont X (the regular...

VW will present the ID Roomzz SUV concept at Auto Shanghai 2019, a vehicle that previews the fifth member of the automaker's new ID family of electric cars.

The Atlas may be a grocery getting for most, but Volkswagen is showing a more rugged side with the Atlas Basecamp Concept debuting at the 2019 New York auto show.

VW previewed a 400-horsepower Golf variant in concept form back in 2014 but the car never made production. That might not be case for the next-generation Golf due in 2020.

Volkswagen Group's self-driving car prototypes are testing on the streets of Hamburg, Germany. The goal is to have a trial service up and running by 2021.

Although a Volkswagen Jetta R is technically possible, the German brand has no plans to introduce a hotter sport sedan following the new Jetta GLI. Serban Boldea, director of product marketing for VW, said Jetta customers are far more price conscious, which rules out a Jetta with all-wheel drive...

The sleek 2019 VW Arteon is the successor to the CC and offers handsome looks with a turbo-4 and front- or all-wheel drive.

Last week Volkswagen Group announced plans to double-down on building electric cars with 20 new models and an additional 7 million cars over five years. So far it's said that the battery cells for its MEB vehicles will come from four different global suppliers: CATL, LG Chem, Samsung, and SK...

A new open-top version of Volkswagen's trendy T-Roc has been spotted. Its sighting follows February's reveal of the high-performance T-Roc R. The T-Roc is a compact crossover SUV based on Volkswagen Group's flexible MQB platform. It isn't sold in the United States so don't count on this open-top...

Just one month shy of the five-year anniversary of the reveal of the Volkswagen Golf R 400 concept, the brand has announced there are no longer plans to build a production version of the extra fiery hot hatchback. VW's R division head, Jost Capito, delivered the Golf R 400's death sentence in a...

Volkswagen Group announced plans to launch 70 new electric cars by the end of 2028, up from a previous plan of only 50, at its annual press conference held Tuesday in Wolfsburg, Germany. The first of these 70 EVs is the 2019 Audi e-tron that's just gone on sale. Some of the others we know of...

Prototypes for a redesigned Volkswagen Golf, the eighth generation of the popular nameplate, has been spotted. The car enters production in June and should be in local showrooms early next year, meaning we'll likely see it as a 2020 model—unless VW decides to delay it for the U.S. like it did...

The teasers and rumors were correct. On Monday Volkswagen tugged at our heartstrings as it unveiled the all-electric ID Buggy concept at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show. The Buggy concept rides on VW's new, modular all-electric MEB platform. It's MEB that could enable VW to put low-volume niche models...

Volkswagen's new Jetta has been on sale since last year, but the enthusiast's choice of the compact sedan is will soon head to dealers. On Wednesday, VW announced prices for the 2019 Volkswagen Jetta GLI, and the sporty sedan starts at $26,890, which includes an $895 destination fee. The brand said...

Volkswagen will use next week's 2019 Geneva International Motor Show to reveal the T-Roc R. Before you get too excited, note that the regular T-Roc isn't sold in the United States so neither will the R version. That's a shame because the car is essentially a Golf R with the extra practicality of a...

Volkswagen is working on an electric successor to its iconic Microbus based on 2017's ID Buzz concept car. It's confirmed for a launch here in 2022. However, concurrent with the development of the new electric van is continued development of VW's Transporter series of vans sold overseas, the latest...