Volkswagen News

After testing for the past year in front of spy cameras around the world, the next generation of Volkswagen's iconic New Beetle will be unveiled April 18th at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show. VW will also be showing the car simultaneously in Berlin, New York City, and live on MTV. According to VW's...

New technology is exciting, but like most exciting things it's also fraught with peril -- and that's doubly true for developers. Think of all the tsoris caused by the great VHS vs. Beta battles of the 1980s, or the far more recent Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war, both of which cost manufacturers billions of...

We were treated with a teaser of the upcoming 2012 Volkswagen New Beetle during the recent Super Bowl XLV, and we’ve been seeing barely disguised spy shots of the car for the past several months, but now a new report claims the car will finally be revealed next month. Of course, next month...

The heads of Volkswagen and Fiat are currently in a battle of words over the future of Alfa Romeo, with both sides publicly boasting they know what’s best for the struggling Italian brand. At the recent 2011 Geneva Motor Show Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech proclaimed that he could...

It's just over a week since its debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, but already the Volkswagen Bulli microbus concept has reportedly received the green light for production. According to the report, it will be built in Mexico and sold in the U.S., aimed at the likes of the Scion xB. The small...

Yes, it may look a bit like an Isuzu Impulse, but it's actually one of two takes on the next-generation of Volkswagen small cars: the Italdesign Giugiaro Tex Concept. We think it has a bit of Scirocco in it, too, and that's certainly not a bad thing. It also has a bit of a plug-in hybrid...

The bus is back! Well, sort of, anyway. The Volkswagen Bulli Concept shows that VW hasn't forgotten its long-cube roots. It may even be planning a revisitation of them. This all-electric concept certainly points toward an intriguing vision of what that might look like. Despite its microbus...

The Volkswagen Golf R has been on sale in Europe and other parts of the globe for the good part of a year now but we won’t be getting the car until around the end of this year--and we can’t wait. With a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine churning out 266 horsepower and matched...

The Volkswagen Microbus has been a cult classic since its debut 60 years ago, despite aging sheetmetal and what is, by today's standards, marginal safety and performance. VW hopes to change that with the new Bulli, a concept electric van being shown this week in Geneva. The Bulli is, according to...

With a pair of rather shapely Giugiaro-designed concepts on deck, Volkswagen was already headed for an appealing Geneva show stand. Now, it's going to be even better, as the new Golf Cabriolet shows the world how to make a drop-top small car that doesn't look like it was beaten by the neighborhood...

Imagine you could drive your car using only your thoughts. German researchers have just made that possible -- and they have the video to prove it. Following his recent interview on the Robots Podcast about autonomous vehicles, Raúl Rojas, an AI professor at the Freie Universität Berlin...

The pint-sized terror that is the Volkswagen Golf24 endurance race car hits the track and wails, over the top of an operatic soundtrack, in this brief video. We want more. At 440 horsepower, with all-wheel drive, and enough fins to give a shark a heart attack, the Golf24 is mean on paper and in...

The Volkswagen Tiguan has only been in production for a little over three years but a facelift for the compact SUV has been launched in Europe and is set to arrive in the U.S. before the year is out. Following a previous leak, we have official details for the 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan ahead of its...

The Volkswagen Golf isn't exactly the first car that comes to mind when you dip into the VW Group's stable of cars looking for something to take racing, but it turns out it's not a bad choice at all, if these images and specs are any indication. Based on the Golf but packing 440 horsepower, a...

Soon, the U.S. will finally get a taste of the Volkswagen R goodness that the rest of the world has been enjoying for the past couple of years. Of course, we’re talking about the high-performance Volkswagen Golf R, which will be heading to local showrooms towards the end of the year. However...

Once a year, Americans celebrate their love of capitalism with a three-hour long festival of new television commercials. Conveniently broken up by a football game, the ad-fest usually features a bunch of high-concept spots by carmakers, since they're one of the few companies able to afford the...

This latest R-Line package for the new 2011 Touareg SUV was created by Volkswagen’s recently established ‘R’ Division, a department wholly owned by the automaker that is responsible for special projects including the upcoming Golf R as well as the R-Line and Volkswagen Exclusive...

Have you ever wanted to drive a gigantic black beetle through a temperate rain forest? Volkswagen may just have you covered with the next New Beetle if this teaser video is any indication. Of course, the actual car won't look much like a six-legged insect at all, eschewing the arched top for a more...

So you're a Jetta fan, but you can't quite wrap your head around the cheaper, decontented, less refined American-spec 2011 Volkswagen Jetta? Don't lose hope just yet--we may yet get the real Jetta--the European version--at the mid-cycle refresh, according to the latest report. So what are the...

Volkswagen announced today it will premiere two 30 second ads during the 2nd and 4th quarters of Super Bowl XLV, which will air on Sunday the 6th of next month. The separate ads will be for the new 2012 Volkswagen Passat, which made its debut earlier this month in U.S. trim at the 2011 Detroit Auto...