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Yes, the Volkswagen Golf's engine, new for 2019, is less powerful than last year's larger-displacement unit—but the news isn't as bad as you might think. The 147-hp turbocharged 1.4-liter four-cylinder, which replaces the previous 1.8-liter unit, is ...
Volkswagen's perennial hot hatchback, the Golf GTI, just keeps getting better and better. For 2019, VW has turned up the wick on the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and made more performance equipment standard, while also introducing a ...
Volkswagen is simplifying the lineup of the mid-size Passat sedan for 2019, with just two trim levels and one engine left standing. Every Passat is now powered by a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four with 174 horsepower and 184 lb-ft; the 280-hp narrow ...
Volkswagen is exterminating its iconic Beetle car after nearly 80 years on the market. On Thursday, Volkswagen of America confirmed it would end production of the Beetle next year while unveiling what will be the last two Beetle models: Final Edition ...
German state prosecutors will have BMW pay a fine of about €10 million ($11.6 million) to absolve itself of its Dieselgate sins. The newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported this morning that six months of investigations will be wrapped up with the fine, ...
After first introducing it in Canada last year, Volkswagen is finally bringing its Spektrum color program to the United States for the 2019 Golf R. In addition to the five standard colors, Golf R buyers will now be able to choose from 40 new custom ...
For those avid voyagers who think that the regular Volkswagen California camper van isn't enough for their needs, there's a new, even bigger VW pop-top called the Grand California. Based on the larger Crafter commercial van rather than the smaller ...
"For strong product momentum, they need to be produced in the U.S.A.," Woebcken told Autocar, in reference to electric cars. "It's not possible to come into a high-volume scenario with imported cars. We want to localize electric mobility in the U.S ...
Ferrari will notify owners, and dealers will replace the passenger frontal air bag assembly with one that uses an alternate inflator, free of charge. Owners may contact Ferrari Customer Service at 1-201-816-2668. Ferrari's number for this recall is 61 ...
In 2015, the public was shocked to hear that Volkswagen (VW) was intentionally cheating US automobile emissions testing. Two years later, in federal criminal court, VW was ordered to pay a $2.8 billion fine. Load More. share on facebook share on ...
Ford and Volkswagen want to be friends. Specifically, they want to be the kind of friends that develop and build commercial vehicles together. The two automakers aren't rushing into anything, however. They have announced a “potential alliance,” one ...
Gov. Doug Ducey hopes to spend $38 million over the next two years to purchase and replace school buses in low-income communities. He is proposing to use Arizona's portion of a legal settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Volkswagen to ...
Volkswagen announced in a press release Tuesday that it will compete in the newly formed Americas Rallycross series. Volkswagen joins other former Red Bull Global Rallycross teams such as Subaru Rally Team USA and former privateer Steve Arpin, who ...
Volkswagen dragged a bite-sized sample of its Golf GTI TCR under our nostrils last week in the form of multiple concept renderings, and Thursday, it delivered the full entree on a silver platter to Wörthersee Festival. The Golf GTI TCR takes the ...
If the stripped-down track-ready Volkswagen GTI Clubsport wasn't sporty looking enough for you, don't worry, VW has another performance-minded special edition GTI on the way; one that borrows its underlying DNA from the company's TCR race car that ...
Owners may contact Volkswagen Customer Service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 69Q8. Note: This recall partially supersedes recall 16V-079. Note for all recalls: Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
Admirers of Volkswagen's decidedly grown-up approach to hot hatchery, we have some bad news. The German automaker recently spoke to Auto Express and expressed intentions (see what I did there?) of making its high-performance R models more ...
Alexis Bittar's gold-plated VW camper is making the rounds at this year's Coachella festival with a capsule collection of jewelry. Catherine Ollinger. 18 april 2018. New York-based jewelry designer Alexis Bittar is selling his creations at this year's ...
One of the great ironies of buying a new car is that many of them aren't really new. The architectures now deployed beneath so many shiny clearcoats are engineered to last for years upon years—decades in some cases—so even cars billed as “all new ...
Volkswagen's redesigned 2019 Jetta compact sedan continues to make value a high priority with a starting price of $19,395, which is $100 less than the 2018 model. It also undercuts the prices of entry for the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla by a few ...
Volkswagen's dieselgate fiasco has been one of the most infamous automotive scandals in modern times. After the German automaker was discovered to be using an emission defeat device with diesel cars sold around the world, it was hit with costs totaling ...
The autonomous driving frenzy was dealt a serious blow after an Uber self-driving car hit and killed a pedestrian earlier in March. Volkswagen (VLKAY) Group of America CEO Hinrich Woebcken reacted to the setback in an interview with TheStreet at the ...
Peter Lyon (chair – Japan), Jens Meiners (vice-chair – Germany), Mike Rutherford (vice-chair – UK), Tim Stevens (director – USA), Siddarth Patankar (director – India) and Gerry Malloy (director – Canada and president, WCOTY Association). New York ...
Volkswagen spokeswoman Jeannine Ginivan confirmed to USA Today that as of now, there are no plans to discontinue the Beetle in the U.S. That means the VW Beetle in its current form will likely survive a few more model years, but will probably still be ...
Volkswagen took the wraps off of its brand new Touareg in Beijing Friday, revealing a mid-size SUV the company plans to sell seemingly everywhere but here. If you haven't been paying attention, VW axed the Touareg here in the U.S. starting from the ...
In VW's mainstream mid-size sedan, the Passat, the R-Line is its own trim level, but in the more upmarket Arteon, it will be an option package that's available on any model—SE, SEL, or SEL Premium. We'd love to see the sporty R-Line bring with it at ...
The Volkswagen Arteon four-door may soon be accompanied by a wagon counterpart. This news came out of Volkswagen's annual media conference in Berlin, Germany, last week. Volkswagen characterized the model as a “shooting brake.” That suggests a ...
Few vehicles in Volkswagen's current lineup are as divisive among the Car and Driver staff as the Golf R. Even a casual mention risks stirring the office pundits, triggering impromptu sermons dissecting the Golf R's price-versus-performance statistics ...
Volkswagen has been busy. At the recent North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Volkswagen unveiled the seventh generation of its compact Jetta sedan. Then, right on the heels of that announcement, VW at the Chicago Auto Show pulled the ...
Volkswagen will notify owners, and dealers will replace the driver's front airbag inflator free of charge. The recall was expected to begin March 15, 2018. Owners may contact Volkswagen Customer Service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this ...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is trialling augmented reality with a four month pilot of RealWear glasses technology in ten Van Centres ahead of a national roll out. The bespoke augmented reality platform enables experts to send precise visual ...
Just a few years ago, the various marques of the Volkswagen Group competed in a wide array of top-level motorsports. But that was then. These days, you won't see Touaregs tackling the Dakar or Polos dominating the World Rally Championship. Audi and ...
Sport-utility vehicles are practical and popular; convertibles are fun. So why not combine the two? It sounds like a brilliant idea but, aside from true off-roaders like the Jeep Wrangler, the concept has rarely been successful. Nissan's Murano ...
Volkswagen AG came to an agreement to settle a lawsuit over the company's marketing of clean-emissions vehicles, resolving a contentious fight over consumer fraud claims just before it was about to go to trial. The suit was dismissed on Friday by ...
The 2018 Volkswagen Passat is a mid-size sedan with an affordable price tag that makes it a good car for first-time buyers. There's plenty to like about the Passat, but there are some areas where it falls short. Here are the 10 best and worst things ...
Volkswagen has been showing off its I.D. line of concept electric vehicles for a couple of years now, but we won't have to wait long for them to actually enter production according to a new report. VW will enter production with the I.D., starting with ...
We've been admiring the good looks of Volkswagen's CC replacement, the Arteon, for nearly a year now—from afar, that is. But now VW has finally announced U.S.-market information for the 2019 Arteon, and it doesn't appear to be at all dumbed down ...
In the summer of 2015, from a Volkswagen perspective, the automotive world seemed largely okay. The factories were humming, and engineers were working on high-performance projects such as the Golf R400 and luxury models like the next Phaeton. Then the ...
It's time to look at auto stocks now that the Detroit Auto Show is over. The Detroit auto show's Car of the Year winners for 2018 are the Honda Accord, the Volvo XC90 and Ford's (F - Get Report) Lincoln Navigator, but I just can't get excited about any ...
Volkswagen talked about the next generation of its Golf hatchback at a board meeting Friday. The eighth generation Golf, or Mk8, is currently in the second stage of development and will start production mid-2019. Top executives of VW convened at the ...
The Golf R is the understated and underrated antithesis of its red-hot hatchback rivals such as the Ford Focus RS, Subaru WRX STI, and Honda Civic Type R. Its mixture of performance and practicality is expected, but its seamless blending of those two ...
The sporty Volkswagen Passat GT concept first shown back in November 2016 is heading to production for the 2018 model year. It remains virtually unchanged from the car we saw back then, equipped with a VR6 engine, a six-speed dual-clutch transmission ...
What It Is: The next and eighth generation of the Golf, Volkswagen's global best-seller. It comes later than expected—VW project development got sidetracked by the diesel scandal—and it represents a relatively small technological step forward from ...
The recall is expected to begin January 31, 2018. Owners may contact Audi Customer Service at 11-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 69T7. Stay up to date with important consumer news: Oops! something went wrong, mind trying again?
Wrzesnia, Poland, plant uses robotic, automated metrology systems from GOM for the Crafter commercial van, a vehicle produced in dozens of configurations. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Google+ Share to LinkedIn ...
What It Is: Volkswagen's third-generation Touareg SUV, caught completely sans camouflage during an apparent open-air photo shoot ahead of its official debut. More than a decade after the Touareg first went on sale in the United States, we still feel ...
The GTI is now entering its 12th consecutive year as a winner of our 10Best Cars award (along with the rest of its Golf family), and it's as good as ever. The GTI is a practical car with real performance credibility at a price that would make plenty of ...
The current Volkswagen Jetta, the sixth generation since the Golf with a trunk was introduced in 1979, arrived for the 2011 model year as VW grudgingly acknowledged that its brand was not seen in America as the gateway to the German luxury-car makers ...
We love it when an agency puts its back into changing a cultural paradigm. That's what Amsterdam-based KRFL is doing with Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA, a ridesharing service that calls itself a “social movement.” Based in Berlin, Hamburg and Helsinki ...
(DETROIT) – A U.S.-based Volkswagen AG executive who oversaw emissions issues was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $400,000 by a judge on Wednesday for his role in a diesel emissions scandal that has cost the German automaker as much as $30 ...
