The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR has been revealed as a stripped down GTI with extra power as VW attack the 2016 TCR touring car championship. Volkswagen’s dieselgate crisis may have had them looking at every way they can to keep costs in check, but that hasn’t stopped VW developing this, the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR, to tackle […]
Volkswagen T-Cross Breeze Concept opens its top in Geneva
[nggallery id=2287 template=customlinks] The Volkswagen T-Cross Breeze Concept arrives in Geneva as VW start to deliver the promise of a new Polo-size Crossover/SUV future model. We knew VW were planning to take a new, small SUV concept to the Geneva Motor Show, and it looked like it would be called the T-Cross. But we hadn’t actually envisaged […]
Volkswagen tease baby SUV Concept for Geneva – is this the VW T-Cross?
A new small SUV / Crossover concept is heading for a debut at the Geneva Motor Show, and is thought to be the VW T-Cross, based on the next gen Polo. Alongside the 2016 facelift for the VW up!, Volkswagen will have a new concept of a baby SUV / Crossover to show at the […]
2016 Volkswagen up! gets a facelift and new 89bhp turbo petrol engine
[nggallery id=2273 template=customlinks] The 2016 Volkswagen up! City Car is getting a facelift, which debuts at the Geneva Motor Show, and a new 89bhp turbo petrol engine. It’s more than four years since the VW up! City Car first arrived, so it’s time for a bit of cosmetic titivation, some new equipment and a new 89bhp […]
Vauxhall GT Concept revealed: Vauxhall/Opel dream of little sports cars
[nggallery id=2251 template=customlinks] The Vauxhall GT Concept (it’s an Opel GT Concept too) has been revealed ahead of a Geneva Motor Show debut as a small, light, futuristic sports car. We’ve had a tease for the Vauxhall GT Concept (which is the Opel GT Concept for Europe), and now we get the reveal of the […]
VW Golf Facelift at Geneva 2016 – and the Golf R420 will be close behind
The Volkswagen Golf MK 7 will get a facelift for 2016 which will debut at the Geneva Motor Show, and the Golf R420 will go in to production soon after. We did think the VW Golf would get a facelift towards the end of 2016, but it seems like its arriving somewhat earlier and will […]
Volkswagen Look up!, CC Black Edition & Scirocco GTS Special Editions hit the UK
Volkswagen has released special edition models of the up!, CC and Scirocco in the UK with styling tweaks and equipment upgrades. As we often point out, the start of the new year isn’t the best of times for new car sales, so car makers usually resort to special edition models with styling tweaks and equipment […]
Volkswagen Tiguan GTE Active Concept revealed – previews next gen Tiguan
[nggallery id=2240 template=customlinks] The VW Tiguan GTE Active Concept debuts in Detroit as a 4WD off-road plug-in hybrid Tiguan, previewing the next generation Tiguan in the process. You have to wonder if Volkswagen had originally planned to debut a plug-in hybrid concept of the next generation Tiguan at the Detroit Motor Show, or whether the whole […]
Volkswagen BUDD-e Concept revealed – it’s an ELECTRIC Camper Van
[nggallery id=2239 template=customlinks] The Volkswagen BUDD-e Concept has been revealed at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show as an electric Camper Van / Microbus with a wealth of technology. Volkswagen has been teasing what we expected to be a new electric Camper Van (or Microbus or Kombi or whatever you grew up calling it), and here its […]
It’s 70 years since Major Ivan Hirst got the first Volkswagen Beetle off the production line
This week marks 70 years since the first Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the production line in Wolfsburg, thanks to British Major Ivan Hirst. The Volkswagen Beetle may, or may not, be the most successful car of all time (selling more than 21 million), but its part in motoring history is secure as it turned Volkswagen from a bombed-out, almost derelict […]