The Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport 45 arrives as VW celebrates 45 years since the Golf GTI arrived in 1976. Costs from £39,980. It’s 45 years since the original Golf GTI arrived and, in the process, effectively created the Hot Hatch, and it’s enough to hang a new special edition Golf on – say hello to […]
Volkswagen Polo FACELIFT adds a touch more Golf and tech upgrades
The Volkswagen Polo get a facelift for 2021, with design tweaks adding Golf looks and extra technology including standard LED lights. It’s four years since the current Volkswagen Polo arrived, bringing with it looks that were closer to the VW Golf and a jump in size to make it more appealing, and more grown-up. Now […]
Volkswagen ID.4 is 2021 World Car of the year, beating the Honda e and Toyota Yaris
The electric Volkswagen ID.4 – VW’s first electric SUV i is the 2021 World Car of the Year, beating the Honda e and Toyota Yaris. It’s World Car of the Year time again, but just as last year’s WCOTY was affected by Covid and moved to a YouTube reveal, the same has happened this year. […]
Volkswagen ID.4 GTX CONFIRMED as performance electric ID.4 – debuts April 28
The Volkswagen ID.4 GTX will debut on 28 April as VW add the performance GTX badge to its electric ID cars. Back in December, we reported that a VW ID.4 GTX was is the way to deliver VW’s first performance EV and add a new badge to the list of VW performance badges which includes […]
VW ID.3 Pure Performance models arrive with 45kWh battery and prices from £28,370
Volkswagen is now offering the electric ID.3 in Pure Performance guise, with 45kWh battery and prices from £28,370 (after PiCG). As VW continues to grow its EV offerings, the ID.3 is getting cheaper with lower spec models, and now the cheapest so far arrives with the ID.3 Pure Performance models. The key to the lower […]
Electric Volkswagen ID.4 Pro Performance models go on sale from £41,470
The Volkswagen ID 4 Pro Performance models – the first ID.4 series production versions – go on sale in the UK from £41,470. The Volkswagen ID.4 Electric SUV went on sale in the UK in January, but all that was on offer was a single spec First Edition model. But now the first series production models […]
Volkswagen changing its name to VOLTSWAGEN? No, it’s German ‘Humour’ gone wrong
Volkswagen declared earlier this week that it was changing its name to Voltswagen in the US. But it’s not. When we saw the ‘News’ that Volkswagen had posted, and removed, a press release saying they planned to change their name in the US to Voltswagen we figured it was just a cock-up by a VW […]
New Volkswagen Amarok – a Ford Ranger in VW clothes – back for another (identical) tease
The new Volkswagen Amarok pick-up returns for a new tease ahead of its arrival in 2022. Although there’s nothing new to show. It’s a couple of years since the news arrived that Volkswagen and Ford were teaming up to share the cost of a number of projects going forward, one of which is the development […]
Volkswagen Touareg R Plug-in Hybrid on sale in the UK from £71,995
The new Volkswagen Touareg R Plug-in Hybrid is now on sale in the UK from £71,995, featuring a 28-mile EV range and 456bhp. In the strange year we’ve had, you may have forgotten that over a year ago, before everything revolved around Covid, we had the debut of a new VW R model – the […]
VW Project Trinity EV with big range ARRIVES in 2026 – does that mean a Solid State Battery?
Volkswagen announces Project Trinity EV for 2026 with high range and extremely short charging times. Does that mean solid state batteries? Volkswagen are on a mission to turn in to a maker of electric cars and save the world, with the ID.3 and ID.4 already revealed and more to come. But, according to Volkswagen, the […]