The 2010 Volkswagen Golf R has leaked out ahead of Frankfurt. It features the same 265bhp engine as the Scirocco R plus 4WD. We’ve praised the VW Scirocco R as a great alternative to the Focus RS. It’s almost as quick but it’s wrapped up in a prettier package. But the Scirocco will always play […]
VW Tiguan Reviewer- Final Lineup
VW’s People’s Reviewer Competition to find the best amateur reviewer of the Tiguan is now at the final stage. We’ve been following VW’s quest to find a ‘People’s Reviewer’ for the new Tiguan. It appealed to us (and you, going off the number who’ve kept up with the updates we’ve run) on a couple of […]
Volkswagen BlueMotion at Frankfurt
VW are bringing new versions of the Polo BlueMotion, Golf BlueMotion and Passat BlueMotion to the Frankfurt Motor Show this month. Even though we’ll be seeing some proper supercars at the Frankfurt Motor Show this month, much of the focus will be on economy, hybrid cars and electric cars. So VW are taking the opportunity […]
Porsche Cayenne & Panamera to be axed?
That headline sounds a bit like a died-in-the-wool Porsche fanatics dream scenario. Dump the models they don’t consider to be ‘real’ Porsches and concentrate on the 911. Oh, and if they must – just for the poor, you understand – make the Boxster and Cayman so the hoi polloi can get a taste of the […]
VW Polo 3 Door (2010) introduced
The VW Polo has been a big success for Volkswagen since it was introduced nearly 35 years ago, and VW recently released details of the UK version of the 5 door Polo. But now comes details of the 3-door VW Polo which will debut at Frankfurt next month. Volkswagen has done a good job with […]
Vaxhall Insignia ecoFLEX Sports Tourer – Details
The Vauxhall Insignia is a very good car. As, in fact, is virtually every car in Vauxhall’s stable. But the Insignia is perhaps the most stylish, and in Sports Tourer guise it is a match for anything else out there, particularly the VXR Sports Tourer, which is a cracking car. But performance is not quite […]
Porsche BlueSport back on
The changing fortunes at Porsche are bringing fresh thoughts on the future of Stuttgart. It’s not very long since Porsche stated that they would not build a BlueSport Porsche, but it looks like the new Porsche boss Martin Winterkorn has very different ideas. But as the boss of VW, that’s hardly surprising. In an interview […]
VW Tiguan Review – the People’s Final lineup
We’ve reported a few times over the last few months on VW’s campaign to find an amateur reviewer (and to raise the profile of the VW Tiguan in the process) and they now seem to have got together a final lineup before a verdict gets announced this coming weekend. In the final heat, Harriet Gore […]
VW & Porsche could become Auto Union
It looks like Volkswagen and Porsche are getting close to an agreement on a way forward, and it now looks likely that the new union will resurrect the Auto Union name, first used when Audi, Horch, DKW and Wanderer joined forces in the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Somehow apposite then that […]
New Volkswagen Golf Plus BlueMotion Introduced
There seem to be even more new VW Golf variants than there are Porsche 911s, and now we’ve got a new one to add to the mix – the new Volkswagen Golf Plus BlueMotion – as part of the VW Golf Economy Range. The new VW Golf Plus Bluemotion is basically a Golf Plus with […]