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 […]
Porsche Cajun: Official
Porsche has confirmed that they are working on a smaller SUV / Croosver – the Porsche Cajun – which will come to market in 2014. The news that there has now been official confirmation that the Porsche Cajun is going to be built won’t come as an enormous shock to regular readers. We’ve been talking […]
Porsche Cajun: the 2-door coupe crossover
It’s been revealed that Porsche’s baby Cayenne – the Porsche Cajun – will in fact be a high-riding, 2-door coupe crossover. It’s only a week or two since we finally discovered for certain that Porsche will be building an SUV / Crossover based on the Audi Q5. And we also discovered that instead of being […]
Porsche Cajun – the ‘Baby’ Porsche Cayenne
VW boss Martin Winterkorn has told Der Spiegel that Porsche will be producing a smaller SUV and that it will be called the Porsche Cajun. It seems like the car world has been predicting a ‘baby’ Porsche Cayenne ever since the original stepped on to the world stage in 2003. The baby Cayenne has long […]
Porsche BlueSport back on – but we knew that
VW boss Martin Winterkorn has again been quoted as saying that Porsche will build a ‘Baby Boxster’ – the Porsche BlueSport. Last year it was a case of ‘Spot the BlueSport’ as rumours ran wild over which parts of the VW Group (what happened to re-naming it Auto Union – another of last year’s rumours?) […]
Volkswagen Brands – enough for now
VW’s CEO , Martin Winterkorn, has said that VW has enough brands and won’t be seeking to expand further by acquisition. Volkswagen seems to be on a world domination plan. Audi is expanding with every passing day and the VW Group (Auto Union to be) has an unrivalled list of brands under its umbrella, including […]
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 […]