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Only one small, portion is required for the platform

If automakers can experience envy, then Volkswagen's MQB (Modularer Querbaukasten or modular transverse layout) is inspiring it among automakers all over the world. It appears that Volkswagen's $70 billion investment in the platform could ...

It will get a refresh in 2014.

Fans of the VW Scirocco have quite a wait ahead of them if they want a new generation. The sporty and stylish variant of the GTI will not get a new edition until 2017 at the soonest. VW sees the coupe and roadster market as especially weak at ...

More bad news from Lotus today. Since its parent company, Proton, was sold to investment company DRB-HICOM, the future of Lotus has seemed very unclear. Then a few weeks ago, the company's CEO Dany Bahar was quickly fired for allegedly misuing...

During an employee meeting in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen AG Chairman Dr. Martin Winterkorn acknowledged challenges in the market, but said that the company is on track to meet its 2018 sales goals.  “We’ve got what it takes to keep...

Volkswagen has opened a new factory in Yizheng, China, to build the Polo. It will be able to build 300,000 cars a year. Volkswagen allocated the money to build the factory in July 2010, and it has been finished earlier than planned. The factory wi...

The Ningbo factory will build cars using the MQB platform

Volkswagen has opened its 16th factory in China and 105th factory worldwide. The factory will build 300,000 vehicles a year on VW Group’s MQB platform. The first model being built there is the Skoda Superb. "This new, state-of-the-a...

It will build VW MQB platform vehicles

Volkswagen is opening a new factory in Foshan, China, with its Chinese joint venture partner FAW that will be able to build 300,000 cars a year and employ 6,500 people. The first model to roll of the production lines was a seventh generation Golf....

It will debut at the North American International Auto Show

The Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion concept will show North America the efficiency offered by modern diesel engines at the North American International Auto Show. The concept takes a current Passat and installs VW’s 1.4-liter four-cylinder ...

Volkswagen rejuvenates one of its most successful and long-standing models: the VW Passat. It has been sold over 15 million times, since first launched in 1973 and is available in over 100 countries across the globe. At the Mondial de l’Automo...

Volkswagen has set up a design competition in China that it calls that People's Car Project that allows Chinese designers to submit design ideas for the future. The concepts are not limited to cars, designers also submitted ideas for future ke...