Volkswagen News

BMW is using this year’s Geneva Motor Show to unveil a new range of performance accessories to be sold under the ‘BMW Performance’ line of factory backed modifications. The BMW Performance line was originally introduced in September last year for the 3-series and now the line is...

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...

Yet another carmaker has revealed plans for a diesel-electric hybrid concept car for next month’s Geneva Motor Show, the latest being Volkswagen and its ultra-efficient hybrid Golf. We’ve already reported about BMW’s new X5 ActiveHybrid concept and before that the Peugeot‘s...

Last year Volkswagen officials set an ambitious target to sell more than nine million vehicles worldwide by 2018, but with current levels hovering around the six million car mark VW will have to tackle the lucrative U.S. market if it has any hope of reaching its goal. Long term plans include...

By all accounts, the Phaeton limo has been a major flop for Volkswagen and nowhere has it performed more badly than in the U.S. where the decision to drop the car came just two years after its launch. Since going on sale back in 2003, VW America managed to find a home for just 3,354 cars in total...

If you were disappointed by VW’s decision not to shoehorn its potent 3.6L V6 into the Golf then you'll be glad to hear German company HGP has gone ahead and done it. However, not content with the 300hp output of the naturally aspirated mill, the tuner has added a pair of turbochargers and...

One strategy Volkswagen is looking at to make its cars more appealing in the U.S. is to offer smaller and more efficient engines than its rivals but use turbochargers to maintain class leading performance. Only yesterday we reported that VW was investigating launching vehicles in the U.S. with...

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...

Compact and sub-compact cars have traditionally fared poorly in North America where motorists have for long benefited from some of the lowest fuel prices in the world. Combine this with the fact that cars are much cheaper in North America than in most other parts of the world and it becomes easy to...

Volkswagen’s new Beetle has been on the market now for just on ten years and has enjoyed relatively strong sales despite the lack of significant changes during its life. More than one million new Beetles have been built at VW’s Puebla plant in Mexico and it looks like developers have...

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...

Updated: Sadly, these images turned out to be fake, a prankster's concoction based on a previous brochure of the VW Eos convertible and the Iroc concept car. Well keep you updated in case the real thing comes out. Original: Although prototypes of Volkswagen’s upcoming Scirocco hatch have...

Volkswagen has made no secret of its plans to build a new car plant in the U.S. but latest reports claim it could follow this up with an engine and transmission facility as well. The German giant is expected to announce within months the location of its new car plant, which most are expecting to be...

Tata’s Nano minicar has put India in the spotlight as a center for low cost manufacturing. Few believed the Indian giant could keep its promise of delivering a car costing only $2,500 but just two weeks ago in front of the world’s media the covers finally came off the breakthrough...

It’s safe to assume anyone modifying their 911 to the state of tune offered by the guys at Germany’s SpeedART could be considered a serious performance enthusiast, so why would such individuals want to modify the softer convertible model in Porsche’s lineup? The answer, it would...

For Volkswagen to be a genuine rival to Toyota it will have to increase its sales in the U.S., and the key to doing so will be to overcome its current reputation as a manufacturer of low quality and expensive cars. The biggest problem is the fact that most of VW’s lineup is currently imported...

Volkswagen’s long awaited Passat-based four-door coupe has been revealed just hours prior to its official world debut at this week’s 2008 Detroit Auto Show. The new model will be called simply the CC, and although it’s based on the Passat platform it sits five centimeters lower...

The Audi R10 diesel shook up the racing world when it stormed onto the Le Mans circuit in 2006, and now Audi parent company Volkswagen is applying some of the lessons it learned there to its sports car racing program by introducing the petrol-powered VW Jetta TSI racer. The racer’s debut...

Modern automotive technology is getting so advanced, and the timeline for development so short that an item exclusive to the sacred province of the upper echelon of motorsport a few years ago can be found in economical hatchbacks today - quite literally. Volkswagen’s seven-speed Direct Shift...

After failed co-development talks with Fiat, it seems now that negotiations with BMW as well have come to an end for Mercedes-Benz. Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche has reportedly suggested that it would be hard to interlink the smaller Mercedes models with other lines, which has made it hard to find a...