The new year brought almost in the same time the 2011 Dakar competition. More exactly it started on January 2nd, 2011, that is yesterday. The Dakar rally will have as Official Organisation Vehicle the new Volkswagen Amarok pickup. Namely, a fleet of 45 vehicles will help the organizers to maintain the safety over there in the wilderness. In the official...
The recent speculations about the Martin Winterkorn's contract with Volkswagen got confirmed today when the actual VW Chief renewed his contract with the German group for the next five years. Martin Winterkorn managed to renew his agreement with the Germans from Volkswagen, an agreement which will expire in 2016. Until then, the Chairman of the Board of Management will continue...
Porsche recently announced that VW's plant in Osnabrück will be used for additional capacity in order to built Boxster and Cayman models. Thus, Porsche's models will share the assembly line with models from VW such as the new Golf Cabrio. The main reason consists of sharing resources between VW and Porsche as we talk about the parent company, VW Group,...
See, the automotive industry does love you. How else would you hear about this sort of thing even though New Year's Eve is knocking on your door? According to a report from a factory insider, there's a very good chance that Porsche may send production of the Cayman and the Boxster to the same plant where Volkswagen build the Golf....
The Germans from Volkswagen decided to sign a partnership with the Malaysian people from DRB Hicom even in the beginning VW was just about to sign the partnership with Proton, another local manufacturer and distributor. According to this partnership, Volkswagen will build the Passat in a Malaysian plant, in Pekan, but just after an investment of $320 million. However, the...
Volkswagen Touareg is the latest model picked by the German tuners from ABT Sportsline. The German model received a dark grey body color together with big 22-inch allow wheels, a new set of side sills and a revised front bumper. In the rear a new air deflector was fitted together with a quad-pipe exhaust system. However, that's not all, there...
The Germans from Volkswagen recently revealed at an event held in UK a zero-emission alternative to the traditionals taxi cabs. Volkswagen Taxi concept has a lenght of 3,730 mm and a width of 1,680 mm, making this concept the smallest model in VW's range but however large enough to offer enough space for the passangers. The German people from Volkswagen...
Not one but three versions of the new Transporter will be available for the new Rockton 4Motion version of Volkswagen Transporter, a model which promises to offer better performance when you decided to take a ride on a more rougly terrain than the concrete streets. Under the hood the 2.0-liter diesel engine able to develop 140 horsepower or 180 horsepower...
Reuters published some details about the agreement between Volkswagen and Martin Winterkorn, the current chief of the Germans. According to the information, it seems that VW's Chief Martin Winterkorn is about to sign a new contract with the German company, a contract which will last until 2016. Bernd Osterloh claimed that Martin Winterkorn did a great job at the steering...
About in the same period of the last year Volkswagen introduced rear LED lights for Golf VI. Now, it seems that the German manufacturer decided to make available front LED lights for the Golf VI for the customers who want to equipp their cars with this type of lights but don't want to buy expensive tuning kits. The new front...
The Germans just handed over the first bit of news on the 2011 Volkswagen Eos since the Exclusive package was announced. Volkswagen have told us the what the price tag on a 2011 Eos will look like. Sadly, that price tag is for the United Kingdom only at the moment. Even so, it's worth looking into. If you're British, and...
In order to improve the fuel consumption and the CO2 emissions, the Germans from Volkswagen decided to introduce the BlueMotion Technology package for the 2.0-liter TDI engine found in two power options: 140HP and 170HP. The VW Scirocco benefiting from the 2.0-liter TDI BlueMotion Technology is able to obtain a better fuel consumption of 3,7 liters/100 km and 119 g/km...
It seems that the pick-up models are not avoided at all by the tuners, this time a package able to improve the engine's figures has been developed for the Volkswagen's Amarok pick-up. The Germans from Oettinger decided to upgrade the 1.9-liter engine able to develop 163 horsepower. Thanks to few modifications made just to the ECU unit, the German tuners...
The Germans at Volkswagen came out with a pretty interesting announcement; they plan to invest no less than 51.6 billion euros in their Automotive division. There's more too, VW Group plans to invest this sum over the short period of five years. According to VW CEO, Mr. Martin Winterkorn, this sort of investments are going to be made in order...
The people from Volkswagen revealed in depth the electric version of Golf, a best-seller model for the Germans. Expected to debut in about three years, the Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion features an electric engines able to develop slightly over 100 horses, 150 to be more exatly. The German model comes with a LED light which works while charging such as other...
I know it doesn't sound glamorous but for somebody like me, who has winter mornings wasted scraping away the ice it's an immensely good idea. The new Windshield tech VW is currently testing relies on some chemical magic to work against ice and fog giving you a hard time. The Germans people's car makers got together with the Germans from...
MR Car Design decided to develop a performance tuning kit for the VW's Golf R, a tuning kit called MR6R, able to improve the technical figures of the German car. To be more exactly, the German tuners managed to squeeze 330 horsepower and 470 Nm of torque from the 2.0-liter turbo that fits the Golf R, mainly by revising the...
The convertible version of the Volkswagen Golf is getting closer and there are not anymore doubts if this body version will enter production or not. According to a Volkswagen official, Martin Winterkorn more exactly, the Volkswagen Golf Convertible is ready to enter the production line somewhere next year, in the early 2011, in Spring. The German convertible model that most...
The German tuners from ABT Sportsline released details and figures on the modified engines that will be available for several Volkswagen models such as Scirocco, Jetta, Golf, Polo but also the modified propellers will be available for Audi A3, Skoda Octavia, Seat Ibiza. There are three modified engines in question, two TSI engines, 1.2-liter and 1.4-liter but also a 1.6-liter...
The new Volkswagen Jetta designed for the European market got revealed few moments ago, the European model of the manufacturer in Wolfsburg coming with few changes compared to the U.S. version of the model. These modifications include more standard features for the European Jetta but also a new multilink rear suspension. The entry-level engine option is the 1.2-liter TSI 105...
