Volkswagen USA has just announced that they will be recalling almost 16.000 Routan minivans over a possible fire hazard discovered. The current recall is the fourth to be made this month after General Motors, BMW and Chrysler issued recalls on certain models for problems that could lead to a fire. When sticking to the current situation, the German automaker is...
Today was the first time the world could lay their eyes on the latest incarnation of VW's Jetta sedan, the 2011 model that will soon hit stateside showrooms this October. For now, information on European availability and pricing is not available but there's still enough to keep us busy. The 2011 Jetta features a premiere, it has obvious styling cues...
Volkswagen Group have recently announced their plans to expand production capacities in China with the construction of a new automotive plant which is to be located in Foshan, in the Southern Chinese region of Guangdong. The new plant is scheduled to begin operations around the middle of 2013, sporting a capacity of 300.000 vehicles produced yearly. VW boss, Martin Winterkorn,...
Jonathan Browning has been named global head of Volkswagen AG's 10-brand national sales companies after formerly being GM global sales boss. The announcement was made Friday by VW Group sales and marketing chief Christian Klingler. Klinger introduced Browning as an “excellent sales and marketing expert” and said that he expects him to make use of his “outstanding international experience” when...
The photo in question despite some quality issues is of mild importance to people in the market for what is otherwise a very popular, quality, four door sedan. Due to be released at this year's Paris Motor Show the picture reveals what was most expected by the automotive press, the exterior design. To this extent it seems the 2011 VW...
You may remember the reports of a possible buying of Italdesign Giugiaro by Volkswagen AG and I am pleased to see some confirmation on the situation as the German group announced the future purchase a controlling stake today. The official figure desired by VW is a whopping 90.1% of the Italian design and engineering company. Volkswagen Group have will be...
You may remember how March brought an interesting set of news from the European sales market as Ford has got the distinction of the best selling brand of the month mostly due to the introduction of the new Fiesta. This didn't sit very well with the traditional place holder, Volkswagen who took back their crown the following month for the...
Some reports would lead you to believe just that despite any sort of confirmation from either of the involved parties. While most of you may know about Volkswagen Italdesign Giugiaro isn't that popular a name as you might imagine but it's a very successful company that has come up with some of the most stunning concepts ever made. Previous work...
Volkswagen have just announced that a new trim level will be available for the Eos hardtop convertible in Europe. The new package is called Exclusive and it gives you just that as it's solely purposed in making your Eos more different from the others. What the Exclusive version of the VW Eos offers you is a two-tone nappa leather combinations,...
Volkswagen’s new department responsible for very exclusive sporty models, the R GmbH division, is reportedly working a very hot version of the Polo. The R version of the VW Polo will, as befits tradition in hot hatch V-dubs, be faster and overall better than the GTI version available at the moment. With that in mind, since the Polo GTI has...
Is not the first time when we talk about this future come Volkswagen Polo sedan, back then we didn’t have much about this project, but now new details came out to the surface and we will talk about them in the following. This new Volkswagen Polo Sedan is no doubt an intense developing project, being many times seen in tests,...
We have here the Golf blue-e-motion concept from Volkswagen. This car receive a fast inauguration in the presence of the German chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, and let’s not forget the special thing about this car, I’m talking about that entirely electric propulsion. Even though this total electric technology was presented on a Golf 6 body, the technology will be built...
As electricity has proven itself as the alternative to internal combustion engines and most major manufacturers have taken a leap towards this technology, most of it's available applications imply batteries. Volkswagen, a company that is a bit behind in this field has announced that it will soon produce such a vehicle, most likely we're talking about a car based on...
Well, it seems like the new Volkswagen Golf 7 got on the Nurburgring circuit for a few spins, which is a clear clue that the new generation is coming. Like we anticipated, the first apparitions of the new model on the test circuit made under the actual generation body, but that’s enough for us to say with approximation that we...
Like the title is saying we have here a Volkswagen Phaeton tuned Bentley style, which with the occasion of Beijing Auto Show 2010 Volkswagen presented this new creation. The tuner is Hofele and they realized a couple of months ago an aesthetic kit for Phaeton, also they made some technical modifications all having the result of what you see in...
The admirable thing about this Volkswagen Phaeton is that he lasted very long on the marked, being launched all the way from 2002. At first the success wasn’t very high, with the exception of some changes in 2007 which kept the car in the game. This VW Phaeton facelift brings the same elegant interior, but a little more high tech,...
Even though the attention of the crowd is now on the new version of Volkswagen Touareg, the first generation remains very attractive, for second hand cars amateurs or for those of you who like tuned cars. For those of you who are familiar with Volkswagen Touareg phenomenon, you probably know that the car is powered by a W12 engine at...
Rumors may generally not be something to get excited about but since Volkswagen and Suzuki have actually come to an agreement last December after years of speculation. The motorcycling community was the first to take notice, obviously, and what they’re now speculating on is what Ferdinand Piech will choose to do with some added expertise from Suzuki. The best hoped...
With the Leipzig Auto Show occasion, the Germans presented in world premiere the facelift version of the well known Volkswagen Touran which enters, from the visual point of view, in the family of Golf 6. This compact Touran is going to meet its new rivals, I’m talking about the Renault Scenic or Ford C-Max, and to handle well the competition...
It almost just passed the posts about the New York auto show and here we go with a post about another auto show and namely the Paris Auto Show. You should know that it is a long time since September when the Paris Auto Show will have place but we still got some news about it. Anyway, as you can...
