Volkswagen News

Apologies for the hackneyed headline, but it's true—the American economy is being buoyed by the auto industry, from the ground up. From manufacturing to sales to rising employment, cars are what's fueling economic growth. The US economy's 2.2 percent growth in the first quarter of this year was due in no ...    Read more

If you call a mom a soccer mom, she might turn into a hockey mom and go all Mama Grizzly on you. If you think she drives a minivan, well—you'd be wrong, and as a certain Alaskan politician might insinuate, you better watch out for the claws. Or something like ...    Read more

Numbers matter to automakers, for they not only represent how their business is—or is not—doing, but can be used as a psychological weapon that'll either help or, more often, hinder the competition. Along both lines, Toyota recently re-passed U.S. rival General Motors as numero uno in sales worldwide. Toyota sold nearly ...    Read more

Could the state of California see seven-dollar-per-gallon diesel prices by 2020? Yes, says a study commissioned by the California Trucking Association. According to a report in Truck Trend, the CTA study refers to the fallout of a cap-and-trade emissions program, and new 2020 low-carbon fuel standards. The study claims the ...    Read more

There are days when you feel proud of yourself when you outdo your car's EPA fuel economy by one or two mpg. What if you doubled it, though? You'd likely be a world record holder, except one family did that already, and they're going to be a tough act to ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

Did you hear the story of the man who fell asleep at the wheel, and crashed into a sign warning against falling asleep at the wheel? No? Well, NPR doesn't lie (too often). Drowsy driving is a problem that's remedied only within the most expensive of luxury cars, ...    Read more

Porsche fan have been waiting for an updated version of the 550 since the original 550 first won Le Mans...way back in 1955. Porsche hinted of such plans at least twice in 2011 but announced it was delaying the project in fear it could affect the ...    Read more

Infotainment, from satellite radio to Bluetooth to smartphone interactivity, has become the latest battleground among automakers to attract consumers' attention and dollars. German automaker Volkswagen and satellite radio provider SiriusXM recently announced the availability of SiriusXM Traffic on certain 2013 VW models. SiriusXM Traffic provides real-time information such as traffic speeds, ...    Read more

The People's Car Project, launched just under a year ago in China, is an online platform for users to submit vehicle and technology concepts for Volkswagen. In 11 months, over 33 million people visited the site and submitted 119,000 concept ideas surrounding both new ...    Read more

We're well in to spring, and as we go through the European Sales numbers released today, we can't help but think it fitting. Spring symbolizes growth and renewal, and as far as European automakers are concerned, things are starting to get pretty green. For the most part April was a ...    Read more

Internet giant and world dominator seeks lowly mortal automaker to further plans for supremacy in all spheres of existence. Any Takers? Now that Google's Android operating software has the majority stake of the Smartphone market, Google's email service— Gmail —is up and running and just about every kid born in the ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

The electric system might not make it into production, but the looks will: Volkswagen previewed the E-Bugster concept at the Beijing Motor Show, and as befitting a roadster, this time it's got its top down. Those with longer attention spans than us may recall that the E-Bugster made its first debut ...    Read more

When Americans rejected diesel-powered cars as smokey, wheezy, and loud in the early 80s, Europeans continued to embrace the technology for its excellent fuel efficiency, refinement, and torque—pulling force of an engine. Of course, it didn't help that the American-designed passenger car diesels of the era were some of the ...    Read more

Apparently, young women today are uninformed about the dangers of applying makeup while driving. Because no one ever told them that while driving, your entire focus should be on the road, especially while traveling at a rate of speed that could kill you. Which is why Volkswagen and DDB Berlin ...    Read more

Got a Volkswagen Golf R? Do you also have an iPad and the Golf R Drivers Forever app? If you've got that fortunate combination, you could be even luckier: Volkswagen could whisk you away on a grand German tour, where you could visit Berlin, Volkswagen's home of Wolfsburg, and the ...    Read more

Volkswagen is issuing two recalls, one on the 2012 VW Passat sedan and the other on its VW Routan minivan. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the 2012 Volkswagen Passat's diesel fuel filter may not have been properly sealed. The federal agency speculates that the issue could lead to ...    Read more

On the latest episode of Head to Head, our colleague Jason Cammisa of sister publication Automobile Magazine gets behind the wheel of both the 2012 Volkswagen Golf R and 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR. Both vehicles are put to the test on both roads and the racetrack alike as Cammisa ...    Read more

While other automakers from all over the world were turning in record sales figures for the month of March, Europe's biggest automotive nameplates were no different. In astonishing fashion, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz all turned in record-setting sales figures for March and the first quarter of 2012. Audi rode ...    Read more

Website CarInsurance.com mulled many a $15,000 car (or less, supposedly), attempting to come up with the perfect list of 20 cars to buy teens. It waded through cars that were considered pretty darn reliable, ranked as Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute of  Highway Safety, and cost the least ...    Read more

We all know about Google's self-driving car. The modified Toyota Prius, utilizing an array of cutting edge technologies such as a roof-mounted laser to create a three-dimensional maps of its immediate environment, successfully navigated the streets of Las Vegas well enough to convince the state to legalize autonomous vehicles ...    Read more

A few weeks ago, we alluded to the idea that Volkswagen is perhaps trying to ape Honda—that the German company is gunning for maximum sales with the big shiny H in its sights. This bit of news will add to that theory: like the Fit EV that Honda is ...    Read more

It's amazing what a sex change can do for car brand. The Volkswagen Beetle, along with the Mazda (Miata) MX-5 and the Mercedes-Benz SLK, have been considered by mainstream male buyers as "women's cars." Men forced to drive any of these vehicles—or even worse, actually admit they're the owner—usually reply in ...    Read more

Porsche is experiencing some growing pains and is turning to sometimes ally/parent/conqueror Volkswagen to help relieve the pressure. The sports car maker will be using VW's Osnabrueck car plant to assemble its Porsche Boxster convertible. Porsche is tapping the plant to handle its overflow from its main Zuffenhausen plant in Germany. ...    Read more