Wörthersee Tour
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Volkswagen's Golf GTI race car developed for the TCR International Series is about to spawn a road-going version. To be called the Golf GTI TCR, VW previewed the new range-topping GTI with a thinly veiled concept version on Thursday at the 2018 Wörthersee Tour, a tuning fest with a focus on GTIs held annually in Austria. The new car is due at the end of the year and will be the fastest and most powerful GTI to date, at least as far as production cars are concerned, with VW confirming an unrestricted top speed of 164 mph to be made possible by an increase in output to 290 horsepower and...
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Abt Sportsline readies Audi R8 art car for 2018 Wörthersee Tour
Attendees of this year's Wörthersee Tour tuning fest in Austria will be treated to the unveiling of an Audi R8 art car crafted by top tuner Abt Sportsline. Responsible for the design is cartoonist Timo Würz, who went with the theme “Nun meets Abt,” with Abt in this case being...
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VW unveils 268-horsepower Golf GTE Performance concept at 2017 Wörthersee Tour
Volkswagen waited until Thursday’s opening day for the 2017 Wörthersee Tour GTI tuning fest to release details on yet another hot hatch concept present at the Austrian event. Joining the Up! GTI and hybrid Golf GTI and Golf GTE SportWagen concepts at the event is the Golf GTE Performance...
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VW reveals GTI hybrid concept with rear-axle electric motor
This year’s Wörthersee Tour GTI tuning fest is upon us and Volkswagen has revealed some exciting concepts. Last week we were treated to the production-bound Up! GTI concept and now we have details on two new concepts present at the Austrian event. The highlight is a Golf GTI hybrid...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Volkswagen builds an Up! GTI for 2017 Wörthersee Tour
Volkswagen’s pint-sized Up! hatchback has received the GTI treatment. The car, still a concept, debuts next week at the 2017 Wörthersee Tour and will enter production in early 2018. Since we don’t get the standard Up! in the United States, don’t waste your time pining for...
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VW trainees unveil GTI, Golf R Variant concepts at Wörthersee
Every year, Volkswagen unveils a barrage of concept cars at the Wörthersee GTI love-fest in Austria. Since 2008, that's included at least one car built by a group of apprentices. This year, two groups of trainees turned up with a modified GTI and Golf R Variant wagon. The GTI is called...
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Volkswagen’s GTI is 40 this year and we can think of few better ways to celebrate than the setting of a Nürburgring lap record. Well, that’s exactly what VW has done using the new GTI Clubsport S. The Clubsport S was revealed today at the annual Wörthersee Tour GTI tuning fest in Austria, where it was also confirmed the car had lapped the Nürburgring in a time of 7:49.21. Doing the driving was German racer Benny Leuchter. This was enough to nudge Honda’s Civic Type R and its 7:50.63 lap time off the top pedestal. Of course, there’s a new Civic Type R...
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VW drops Golf R 400 in favor of 306-horsepower GTI Clubsport S
Volkswagen is out testing a new version of its GTI. The car offers more performance than last year’s 261-horsepower (286 hp with overboost) GTI Clubsport and makes its world debut at the upcoming Wörthersee Tour GTI tuning fest in Austria. The car may look like the previous GTI Clubsport...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Volkswagen GTI Dark Shine and Golf Variant Biturbo Concepts Debut At Wörthersee
Two more Volkswagen show cars debut for Wörthersee.
Stephen Edelstein -
Porsche-Powered Volkswagen Bus 'Race Taxi' Debuts At Wörthersee
Check out this Volkswagen bus with the heart of a 911.
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Volkswagen Presents 395-Horsepower Golf GTE Sport Concept At 2015 Wörthersee Tour
Volkswagen surprised visitors at this week’s 2015 Wörthersee Tour with a second high-performance concept car based on its humble Golf hatchback. The first was the GTI Clubsport, which previews a special edition GTI VW will launch on the market next year to mark the nameplate’s 40th...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
New Photos And Video Of 600-Horsepower Audi TT Clubsport Turbo Concept
Audi has released new photos and video of its TT Clubsport Turbo concept car that’s on show this week at the 2015 Wörthersee Tour in Austria. The concept is a wild take on the new TT sports car, and even though it isn’t destined for production it’s thought to be a preview of...
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Come June of next year Volkswagen’s GTI will have turned 40 and just as it did when the GTI turned 30 and then again when the popular hot hatch turned 35, the German automaker will have something special planned. That special something will be a production version of this GTI Clubsport concept debuting this week at the annual Wörthersee Tour GTI meet in Austria. We’ve previously spotted prototypes for a hotter GTI that we thought might be called a Clubsport, but in production form it will likely be labeled simply an Edition 40 or something along those lines. Some of the...
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600-HP Audi TT Clubsport Turbo Concept Heads To Wörthersee Tour Tuning Fest
Austria’s annual Wörthersee Tour tuning fest is on again this month, and Audi is set to be one of the stars thanks to its 600-horsepower TT Clubsport Turbo concept unveiled today. The track-tuned concept looks similar to Audi’s TT Cup racer but it sports a larger 2.5-liter...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
VW GTI Wolfsburg, Golf SportWagen Concepts Star At Wörthersee
Every year since 1981, thousands of Volkswagen and Audi enthusiasts have convened in the Austrian town of Reifnitz, beside lake Wörthersee, for one of the world's biggest Volkswagen group festivals. And for several years, recognizing the value of such a gathering, Volkswagen group brands have...
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Volkswagen Amarok Power Concept Set To Rock Wörthersee With 5,000-Watt Audio
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles unveils a mobile DJ station at Wörthersee.
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Volkswagen GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo Revealed: Video
Building cars for Gran Turismo 6 has become almost as popular with carmakers as building actual cars. The latest to join the fray is a futuristic concept of the venerable Volkswagen Golf GTI, called the GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo. Yes, there's a comma in the name. And no, we still...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Audi A3 clubsport quattro Concept Mega Gallery And Video
The Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG better watch out, because Audi is hinting at a new performance version of its A3 sedan that may just upset our 2014 Best Car To Buy winner. That hint has come in the form of the stunning A3 clubsport quattro concept car, which made its official debut this week at the...
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Sony's Gran Turismo video game has enriched the lives and worlds of many a car enthusiast, and while the concept cars that come to the game's virtual world may never grace the real world, we love seeing them nonetheless. The latest is Volkswagen's GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo, teased last week and partially revealed today in a passel of official sketches. Yes, there's a comma in the name. No, we can't figure out why. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Live Photos And Video What we do know about the car is that it "uses the Golf GTI Design DNA to create a strong sporting...
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SEAT Ibiza Cupster Concept Confirmed For 2014 Wörthersee Tour
The 2014 Wörthersee Tour is just around the corner and Spanish automaker SEAT has revealed a new concept based on its Ibiza Cupra hot hatch. The concept is called the Ibiza Cupster and it's been built as a way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Ibiza nameplate. MUST SEE: 2015 Dodge...
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Audi Hints At New RS 3 With A3 clubsport quattro Concept
Behold the new A3 clubsport quattro concept, a hotted-up version of the 2015 Audi A3 sedan that’s powered by a five-cylinder TFSI engine developing—wait for it—525 horsepower and 442 pound-feet of torque. The concept will be shown for the first time at the 2014 Wörthersee...
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Audi Reveals R18-Inspired A1 At 2013 Wörthersee Tour
Audi’s A1 and R18 couldn’t be more different, though for this week’s 2013 Wörthersee Tour the brand with the four rings revealed an A1 hatch that was inspired by the highly successful R18 race car. The R18 is the most extreme vehicle produced by Audi, and in its latest e-tron...
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Watch Le Mans Pro André Lotterer Test The Audi TT ultra quattro: Video
Light makes right when it comes to any performance car. When light is done as well as the Audi TT ultra quattro concept, it's very, very right. Billed as an example of how "motorsports meets quattro", the TT ultra quattro concept weighs in at just 2,450 pounds. Generating 305 horsepower, each of...
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Apprentice-Built Wörthersee VW Golf GTI Cabrio Is Worth A See
Since 1981, Volkswagen and Audi enthusiasts have been flocking to the lakeside of Austria's Wörthersee. This influx happens every year, typically sometime in May, and serves as a major car show for fans of the German automakers. Volkswagen brass typically cook up something delicious in concept...
Jeff Glucker