VW showed their L1 Concept at Frankfurt this year. It’s an updating of a similar design from a few years back. Essentially it’s a 1+1 diesel powered city car-esque design study that will get the greenies all up in a fine lather but will be sort of threatening to old school car guys.
I’m not sure [...]
Cruddy time to be an automaker it would seem … unless you’re Volkswagen that is. VW’s sales numbers for July looked surprisingly good, and it’s all down to one reason: People can’t get their hands on the new VW clean diesels fast enough, especially the Jetta TDi SportWagen. It seems logical if you think about [...]
VW’s Tiguan, their still new small-ish SUV has a lot going for it. Everyone who’s driven it says it’s well screwed together, and the size is right for more driving situations than say, a Hummer. You wouldn’t think that an SUV the size of a Tiguan would check out that well in the crash [...]
What’s this? Actual common sense from the auto world? One can only hope, but the signs are looking good that Volkswagen is actually going to make a production version of its knockout BlueSport roadster concept car.
Volkswagen seems to be on a real tear these days with continuing rumors of them acquiring Porsche outright, and sales numbers indicating that they could displace GM and become the second largest automaker in the world. And now word comes out that VW will be partnering with the Chinese automaker BYD to make electric cars.
2009 VW Jetta TDI
They finally did it! They finally made a diesel-powered car that everyone can live with. In the past, diesels have been mostly ignored by US consumers, save for a small die-hard fan base. Most consumers didn’t even look twice at one, assuming they’ll be driving a slow car, spitting black smoke, dirtying [...]
Remember a few months ago, when VW made a big deal about bringing back the Rabbit nameplate to North America? Well, looks like the Wolfsburg boys have had a change of heart, because VW just announced they’re bringing the Golf name back to North America. I bet someone’s in trouble.
When this landed on my desk [...]
Top Gear, the much beloved BBC show aimed squarely at you and me (the gearhead) recently branched out to make versions of their show in Australia and the U.S. To show that the good ol’boys here in the U.S. of A. are not lacking for lunatic ideas, they recently announced they were going to [...]
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