Volkswagen News

Pictured here is a sporty version of Volkswagen’s Amarok pickup truck sold overseas. It is strictly a concept, though it confirms the German automaker has recognized the all around awesomeness of performance pickups like Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor and is at least toying with the idea of...

The Biggest Loser has proven that weight-loss shows can draw serious attention. Volkswagen must be watching because the German automaker is looking for lower numbers on the scales with the Golf. According to Edmunds, VW is nearly ready to offer up an optional extra that will help the popular...

The latest version of VW's turbocharged 2.0-liter four makes its way into the Beetle and Jetta lineups midway through the 2013 model year. Volkswagen says for cars on sale this month, the running changes to those models will include its new TSI engine, the one it's building at a new factory in...

Volkswagen’s 2015 Golf hits local showrooms in the first quarter of next year, and while that’s more than a year later than in other markets, the delay means the yet-to-debut Golf R variant should be available by then. Volkswagen is in the final stages of the high-performance...

In past years, the annual Volkswagen and Audi tuner fest in Wörthersee, Austria has seen the reveal of a number of exciting performance concepts that have led to production. Notable concepts included the Scirocco GT24, Audi A1 clubsport quattro and Golf R Cabriolet, which eventually spawned...

We're hustling along in the all-new Mk7 Volkswagen GTI, on a tightly curved back road in mountainous Southern France. Just as traffic opens up and I can see a fair distance ahead, I raise our speed into the next bend. But it turns out to be a flat, decreasing-radius corner. I pull my line tighter...

While we certainly hope the Volkswagen iBeetle doesn't start a trend of iNaming all kinds of iCars with ridiculous iTags, we do like the way VW has kitted the iBeetle to interface with the iPhone and several apps. The new iBeetle includes an iPhone docking station, integrated into the dashboard...

It looks like the Range Rover Evoque and upcoming BMW X4 are going to have a little competition from a new crossover wearing a “VW” badge. Featured here is Volkswagen’s new CrossBlue Coupe concept, which is positioned as a sportier and more dynamic alternative to the CrossBlue...

American consumers will need to wait until next year to buy a 2015 Golf or GTI at their Volkswagen dealer, but New York Auto Show attendees can see the Mark VII models in the flesh (or in the sheet metal, actually). Volkswagen’s latest Golf models will use the modular MQB platform, and North...

The Mk VII Volkswagen Golf was launched to the world at the Paris Auto Show last September, and has been on sale in Europe since late 2012. The new GTI will join it in May. But we Americans won't get the newest version of the Golf until the first half of 2014 as a 2015 model. Why? Because the Golf...

Volkswagen’s streamlined XL1 diesel-electric plug-in hybrid vehicle has made its debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and will soon be drafting along highways, burning nothing but the fumes of an oily rag. Okay, that may not be entirely accurate, but the XL1 is officially the most...

The yet-to-be-launched-in-the-states MkVII Volkswagen Golf has picked up the prestigious European Car of the Year title in 2013.

Though it's more readily known as the Jetta SportWagen here in the U.S. (with a few tweaks to make it look more like the Jetta) the Golf Variant is how the rest of the world knows this compact wagon, and it's getting an all-new version at this year's Geneva Motor Show. This is what we'll see in the...

The 2014 Volkswagen

Less than six years after promising the world a car capable of returning a fuel economy of 1.0 liter of fuel burned per 100 kilometers driven, roughly equivalent to an insane 235 mpg, Volkswagen has done even better, revealing today, in production trim, a car capable of returning a fuel economy of...

Volkswagen, in only its second outing in the World Rally Championship, has managed to take home a win. The 2013 WRC season is the first for the German auto giant, which is campaigning two of its Polo R WRC race cars. After coming second on its debut at the Rally Monte Carlo last month, Volkswagen...

The Gelb-Schwarzer Renner is back, making its debut as a 2014 model at the Chicago Auto Show. For the uninitiated, the tag, which is German for “Yellow Black Racer” and often shortened to GSR, was attached to a special Volkswagen Beetle launched in 1972, which proved so popular it sold...

Volkswagen’s new MkVII Golf has already gone on sale overseas, and soon a new generation of the high-performance Golf R will be joining it. However, Volkswagen still has one more variant of its outgoing MkVI Golf to launch, and that’s the Golf R Cabriolet, which as its name suggest is...

The Volkswagen Group is currently the third largest automaker in the world, outmatched only by General Motors and Toyota in overall sales, though that could easily change in the next year or two given the German auto giant’s recent performance. Within the group, there are 12 individual...

A new Volkswagen GTI is expected to debut in 2014, but that doesn’t mean that the German automaker has forgotten about the current Mark VI GTI. Announced today are two limited-edition four-door GTI models designed to appeal to buyers looking to add a bit of exclusivity to their driving...