The latest iteration of the VW Golf – the Volkswagen Golf Mk 8 – will debut this month, ahead of which we get official tease images from VW. It’s taken Volkswagen a while to get round to promoting the arrival of the new Golf Mk 8, so involved where they with proclaiming the new electric […]
Hold the Front Page! Volkswagen has a new ‘R’ logo
Volkswagen has revealed a new logo for their sporty range-topping ‘R’ models to go along with its new simplified ‘VW’ logo. It’s a always a constant source of amusement when businesses reveal a new logo – often after spending vast sums of money on its design – and hardly anyone can see the difference. But […]
Volkswagen remembers the Golf MK8 hasn’t been revealed yet (now the ID 3 EV has arrived)
The new Volkswagen Golf Mk 8 will finally be revealed on 24 October 2019, as VW remembers it has another big reveal to do after the electric ID 3. What’s happened to the VW Golf Mk 8, you may well ask? Well, as we already know, the cornerstone of the VW business has been put […]
Skoda going DOWNMARKET and SEAT going UPMARKET as VW looks to realign group offerings
The Volkswagen Group is looking to realign its brands to create more differentiation, and are planning to push SEAT upmarket and move Skoda down according to a recent report. We’ve had a moan before about Jaguar Land Rover’s model overlap cannibalising sales from one model to another instead of eating up the competition. But at […]
Volkswagen’s ‘We Deliver’ will deliver parcels to your VW’s boot in the UK
Volkswagen’s ‘We Deliver’ service will launch in the UK in 2020, allowing deliveries and collection of parcels directly from your car boot. It’s almost four years since we reported that Volvo could deliver parcels to your car’s boot in a novel attempt to remove the ‘no one in’ excuse for failed parcel deliveries, and make […]
VW Golf Match Edition, GT Edition and R-Line Edition say goodbye to the Mk7 Golf
Volkswagen is sending off the Golf Mk7 with more generously equipped Edition versions – the VW Golf Match Edition, GT Edition and R-Line Edition. All the noise from Volkswagen at the moment is about the new ID 3 as VW seeks to start its third life stage – after the Beetle and Golf – with […]
Volkswagen T-Roc R goes on sale in the UK
The Volkswagen T-Roc R – VW’s Golf R on short stilts – goes on sale in the UK with 296bhp from its 2.0 litre turbo and pries from £38,450. Volkswagen rolled out the T-Roc R in ‘near production’ guise back in February as they decided the world needed a compact SUV with the power of […]
VW ID 4 Electric SUV previewed in a glass box in a corner at Frankfurt
The big deal for Volkswagen is the ID 3, but lurking in a corner, in a glass box, sits a first look at the VW ID 4, an electric VW SUV for 2020. The Frankfurt Motor Show may be lacking some big names this year as car makes turn away from Motor Shows as a […]
Volkswagen’s big electric car gamble begins – the VW ID.3 is revealed
The Volkswagen big gamble that electric cars are mainstream ready, begins with the VW ID.3, revealed this evening at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Is the car world crying out for a high volume electric car from Volkswagen? That’s a question only time will answer, but if it is then VW thinks it has the answer […]
VW e-Up! plays range catch-up with the SEAT Mii Electric and Electric Skoda Citigo e iV
The new electric Volkswagen Up! – the VW e-Up! – is heading for debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show with a new battery delivering 160-mile range. We’ve been quite disparaging about the electric VW e-Up! in the past, with its woeful range and silly price, although VW partly (and only partly) addressed that by cutting […]