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Volkswagen has one more Up for us at the Geneva Motor Show called the Eco Up that is fueled by a compressed natural gas-fueled engine.  The Eco Up uses a 1.0 liter, three-cylinder engine with start/stop tech and battery regeneration that ...

E-Up will offer 150km range and be on sale this year

Volkswagen will introduce an electric version of the Up at its investor's conference in Wolfsburg on March 14, and the car will make its public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 10. With the e-Up, Volkswagen is bucking the gen...

Former Volkswagen manager Karl-Thomas Neumann is being eyed to be the next CEO of Opel according to the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper. Neumann left Volkswagen during the summer and has a non-compete clause in his contrac...

In the certified test, it consumed 2.92l/100km

Volkswagen has done a 1602km (995 miles) test of a Golf TDI BlueMotion from Nantes, France, to Copenhagen, Denmark on a single tank of fuel, and the car consumed 2.92l/100km, better than its 3.2l/100km official rating. Vehicle inspection company D...

In the model with start/stop and regenerative braking, efficiency is improved by 18%

Volkswagen is finishing its new Golf rollout with the 300ps (296hp) Golf R as a two-door and four-door model. Like the previous generations, the Golf R comes with all-wheel drive, but the latest generation of 4MOTION from Haldex means 18% better f...

It will not be on sale until the first quarter of 2015

The seventh generation Volkswagen Golf is still not on sale in the United States, but Volkswagen will change that at the North American International Auto Show with the introduction of the US version of the Golf R. Unfortunately, it will be the la...

The new Golf VII has just gone on sale, but Volkswagen is still rolling out all of the car's options.  It is now offered with three new petrol engine and all-wheel drive. The new engines are a 1.2 TSI BlueMotion with 105ps, 1.4 TSI Bl...

It has more than double the points than the second place car

The Volkswagen Golf has been voted the 2013 Car of the Year with 414 points from the award's voters. It had more than double the points of the Toyota GT-86 and Subaru BRZ in second place with 202 points. The Volvo V40 came in third with 189 po...

It is the first time ever that it has achieved that milestone

Volkswagen Group sold over 6 million cars in the first eight months of the year for the first time ever. Deliveries were 6.17 million cars for the period from January to August, up 4.5% since the same period last time. For August, Volkswagen Group...

It is still struggling in Europe, but Asia has become a major market

Volkswagen Group performed well in May with 816,500 cars sold, up 6.9%. From January to May of this year, it has delivered 3.87 million cars, up 5.9% from the same period last year. Western Europe remains the most uncertain market “Devel...