Volkswagen News

Wanting to know exactly how the latest engine tech is saving you on gas? Or what the future holds for automotive safety? Attendees at this year's Chicago Auto Show are getting a rare glimpse into the underpinnings of today's vehicles courtesy of Continental AG, one of the world's largest automotive ...    Read more

Volkswagen designed the new 2012 Passat with just one goal in mind—massive, highway-clogging sales. And it seems to be working: January sales rose 47.9 percent compared to last year, and the 2012 Passat sold a not-insubstantial 6,318 cars. And to assist VW with its onward course towards world (or American) ...    Read more

Fans of the classic droptop Volkswagen Golf, a mainstay and icon of the European sun-seeking automotive lineup, can finally rejoice: Volkswagen will debut the 2013 GTI Cabriolet at the Geneva Auto Show in March, as a last farewell to the current Golf range. There have been several compact Golf Cabrios and Eos convertibles ...    Read more

With all the recent economic forecasts and jobs reports, you'd think it was doom and gloom out there, (and it may be), but you'll only get a half-hearted nod of sympathy from our German friends. These are good times in the auto industry, one that's recovering ahead of the general ...    Read more

The Super Bowl of advertising is just around the corner, once again coinciding with the actual Super bowl. Good thing too, since it's a sure bet that not all of the millions of people watching The Big Game actually enjoy football. However, all of them do buy stuff on occasion, ...    Read more

Michigan-based Hagerty Insurance specializes in providing classic car coverage, but the company also does something we especially like— every year it releases a "hot list" of new models that it believe will be future classics. Hagerty asks its team of "valuation experts" to pick ten cars among the countless that ...    Read more

You can't drive around for more than five minutes in Southern California without seeing a 1950's-1960's era Volkswagen Microbus. Soon that may also be the case in every state, as the German auto maker is thinking about bringing back the Microbus, albeit a much more updated version, back to the ...    Read more

We're happy to resuscitate, reiterate, and recapitulate the top five stories of the week. Without further ado, here's a countdown of the top five noteworthy news items from the third week of January 2012. 5. Advocacy Group Believes Fiat, Jennifer Lopez Responsible if Iran Gets Nuclear Weapons Don't be ...    Read more

Volkswagen owns eight brands worldwide: VW, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, SEAT, Škoda, and truck companies Scania and MAN. General Motors had, at its peak, 11 brands, which the forces that be whittled down to seven (and just four in America). Yet GM managed to sell 9 million vehicles across the ...    Read more

Many hardcore Porsche fans view the Cayenne SUV—which launched in 2002 as a 2003 model—and the more recent Panamera sedan as Frankenstein monsters fit only to be burned and the ground beneath them salted until not even bacteria could thrive there. But both "monsters" are alive and thriving thanks to ...    Read more

Environmentally friendly Beetle fans now have the engine to match their retro style: Volkswagen will showcase a TDI-powered Beetle at the Chicago Auto Show in February. Hippies of the world, rejoice! The TDI joins the Turbo and 2.5 engines in the Beetle lineup, and will be a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine that's ...    Read more

This is really the trump card for advertising. While other car companies can tout their fuel economy figures and footage of beautiful young people driving around some trendy urban environ, Volkswagen cuts to the chase with what we really want to see: dogs in Star Wars costumes, barking a familiar ...    Read more

It may be a sad fact of life, but there’s a slim chance that you might own the Volkswagen Golf R. The limited-edition model is only set to 5000 examples—and you, the financially solvent potential owner, will have to battle unscrupulous price-raising dealers and possibly bloodthirsty fellow VeeDub enthusiasts before ...    Read more

Conventional wisdom held that 2011 would be the year of the compact car. Instead, it was a year of disaster, frustration, and not atypically—hope. But everyone already knows 2011's great story: tsunami, earthquake, floods, and burying the past. It's that last part, plus summer's annual focus on the next production ...    Read more

Most Americans look to the upcoming new year with revelry, cautious optimism, or trepidation (especially if you believe in those pesky Mayan predictions and subsequent bad movie). One group, the United Auto Workers, though, sees 2012 as a year of survival. The UAW is in a tough situation. One of the ...    Read more

When President Barack Obama announced a proposal to mandate an increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard automakers must adhere to, the companies rushed to endorse it. Well, all of them but Volkswagen. Volkswagen is a company that espouses the benefits of its clean-diesel technology and boasts about its new ...    Read more

In 2011, Automotive.com’s staff size increased 600 percent. We started our own revitalization, staking out where we were and where we are yet to go. To close out the year, we put together our picks for the high and low points that made up the automotive year that was 2011. From ...    Read more

The next Audi A3 will be released next year, as a model that should be leaps and bounds ahead of its aging predecessor. But it’s not just the latest luxury compact in a crowded model lineup—it heralds a sweeping change across the entire Volkswagen and Audi lineup, one that could ...    Read more

Habemus Papam! The finalists for the 2012 North American Car of the Year awards are out, and up for grabs this year are the Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Passat. On the flip side, the North American Truck of the Year finalists are a diverse field: the BMW X3, the ...    Read more

The “dirty D,” of course, is a term of endearment for Detroit. It’s one that Detroiters use to embolden themselves to the swarms of foreign automotive journalists that will flood the city for the North American International Auto Show, some of whom hail from such faraway locales like Ohio. And ...    Read more

Volkswagen's design boss Walter de'Silva spilled the beans about a new small crossover to sit below the already compact Tiguan as the German auto maker expands its crossover offerings. It also appears that this new crossover won't be the only one to join Volkswagen's lineup. VW is looking to add crossovers ...    Read more

Zee German automakers and Chinese-owned Volvo all posted year-to-date double-digit sales for the month of November. Volkswagen took the lead with an increase of more than 25-percent compared to November 2010, with most of the sales drawn from the all-new 2012 VW Beetle and 2012 VW Passat sedan. The "newest" ...    Read more

Owners of the Chevrolet Volt have latched on to their cars and helped push the innovative plug-in hybrid to the top of Consumer Reports’ Owner Satisfaction Survey. The annual survey takes owners of cars made in the last four model years—in this case 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012—and asks them ...    Read more

We're not going to say that we don't take the Tokyo Motor Show seriously. We do, in fact. But, for a show that only comes around every other year, and largely features a bunch of wacky concept cars that will never see the light of day—at least, not in ...    Read more

With continuing unpredictability of fuel prices, whispers of diesel returning to the United States on a wide spread basis are getting louder. Long gone are the days of the dreadful Volkswagen Rabbit and other vehicles that ran on diesel in the 1970's and 80's. As Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards ...    Read more