Autoblog has been speaking to the heads of Volkswagen’s R Division who say the future for performance VWs is Diesel and 4WD. The VW Golf R is the perfect, grown-up hot hatch. With its more parsimonious 4-pot engine (down from a V6 in the last top-end Golf), great performance and 4WD it’s the connoisseurs hot-hatch. But it looks like the […]
New Volkswagen Tiguan (2012) gets R-Line options
Volkswagen has revealed R-Line option packs for the 2012 VW Tiguan, so you can opt for an R-Line interior or exterior pack. The new VW Tiguan turned up earlier this year, looking for all the world like a mini-me VW Touareg. But with the reveal of the 2012 Tiguan came no news of the R-Line add-ons which turned […]
Volkswagen Passat CC Facelift (2012) at LA Motor Show
Volkswagen has given the VW Passat CC a facelift for 2012 to make it look more upmarket, and more like the Passat Saloon. Debut at Los Angeles Motor Show. The VW Passat CC – the swoopy-coupe version of the regular Passat – has been around for four years and has hardly changed since it launched. […]
VW GT up!: It’s an Up GTI
Volkswagen seem keen to raise awareness of the VW up! GT – a warmed over Volkswagen Up – so we must assume the Up GT is coming soon. We got the reveal of Volkswagen’s new small city car – the VW up! – at Frankfurt in September, and we also got all the details for […]
2012 VW Beetle: UK prices and models revealed
Ahead of its arrival in the UK in Spring 2012, Volkswagen has revealed details of prices and models for the new Beetle. Starts at £16,490. Perhaps the title of VW’s press release for the 2012 Beetle details for the UK best illustrates exactly what VW hope to achieve with the new Beetle: “Less Flower, More Power”. Which is […]
Suzuki serves legal notice on Volkswagen
The ongoing row between Suzuki and Volkswagen has been turned up a notch as Suzuki serves legal notice on VW over breaches of their agreement. It looked a promising alliance, Suzuki and Volkswagen. VW wanted access to Suzuki’s know-how in emerging markets and Suzuki wanted access to VW’s technology, especially its hybrid stuff. But, just […]
VW up!: UK prices and models announced – order book open
Volkswagen has announced prices and specifications for the VW up!, which goes on sale now with first cars Spring 2012. Priced from £7,995. We finally – after years of waiting – got the official reveal of the VW up! ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show. Not quite the radical concept the up! Concept promised to be, the […]
VW Boss Martin Winterkorn on the new Hyundai i30: Nothing Rattles!
VW boss Martin Winterkorn, visiting the Hyundai stand at Frankfurt, spent five minutes poking round the new Hyundai i30 and declared ‘Nothing rattles’! If you’re looking for a benchmark in quality mainstream cars, you can’t do a great deal better than cars from the VW group. From VW to Audi, Skoda to SEAT, VW knows how […]
Frankfurt 2011: VW Nils EV Go-Kart Video
Volkswagen has revealed the VW Nils, a small electric ‘go-kart’ designed for use by commuters in urban environments. There have been quite a few of these very small, go-kart-style urban commuter cars cropping up of late, but perhaps the Volkswagen Nils is the most promising. The most promising because if – and it’s a very big if – […]
VW Beetle R Concept revealed
Volkswagen has revealed a performance version of the new Beetle, with the VW Beetle R Concept bowing in at Frankfurt. We did speculate back in June that Volkswagen were planning on giving the new VW Beetle some butch credentials by endowing it with a new performance range-topper – the VW Beetle R. And today at Frankfurt the […]