Category Archives: Volkswagen
- February 3, 2011
- VW Super Bowl XLV spots push new New Beetle and Passat– also posted in Videos
Volkswagen of America will run two ads in the Super Bowl XLV February 6, one for the 2012 New Beetle and one for the 2012 Passat, neither one of which is on sale yet.
The first ad, “Black Beetle,” doesn’t show the actual car, but rather shows a black beetle, as in [...]
- January 26, 2011
- Volkswagen hits Qatar with a pair of special Touaregs
After three consecutive wins in the famously brutal Dakar Rally, Volkswagen is no stranger to cresting dunes and speeding across desert terrain. And now the German automaker has rolled in to Qatar with a pair of very special Touaregs.
Most enticing of the two is the Race Touareg 3 Qatar. Envisioned as [...]
- June 30, 2010
- VW Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition 2010
Because TDI sites have said much in motorsport competitions and for their popularity is growing for several years now, Volkswagen plans to launch in January, the U.S., Jetta Cup Street Edition, which is a competition in implementing the model a street-legal car.
Special Edition will be faster than normal for a 2.0 [...]
- May 13, 2010
- Volkswagen Golf GTI adidas, Golf GTI Excessive concept to debut at Worthersee
Volkswagen says that the Golf GTI is an icon and we definitely agree since it’s our favorite hot-hatch and has sold over 1.7 million units since its debut in 1976.
As announced earlier in the month, Volkswagen is launching two special-edition version of the GTI at Wörthersee Tour 2010.
The Golf GTI adidas gets wider tracks, upgraded [...]
- June 23, 2009
- VW vs. Opel :)) Invention from Romania– also posted in Opel
- July 8, 2008
- Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW– also posted in General
With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term “fuel efficiency” with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 235 mpg.
Volkswagen’s had its super-thrifty One-Liter Car concept vehicle — so named because that’s how much fuel it needs to [...]
- February 18, 2008
- More info on VW Scirocco
More details are popping out about the new Volkswagen Scirocco – the lightweight sport car – that we will get to see during the International Motor Show in Geneva.
It uses a 1.4-liter TSI engine that develops 122 hp while there is a TDI version, too, works on a seven-speed DSG transmission automatic and semi-automatic. ESP [...]
- December 3, 2007
- GM not going after VW, Toyota’s minicars– also posted in General Motors, Opel, Toyota
General Motors’ European arm has decided that it won’t jump feet-first into the micro-car segment with Smart, and more recently Toyota and Volkswagen. Speaking with Automotive News Europe, GM’s Euro-veep Carl-Peter Forster said that, “These specialized urban vehicles have a limited market.”
True enough, but it’s a market that stands to go through a growth spurt [...]
