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Wants to compete with the Ford Explorer

Volkswagen is hatching plans to offer a larger, cheaper seven-passenger SUV that will be marketed mostly to North America and built at its Tennessee factory. VW wants to compete with the Ford Explorer that made a major jump upmarket in its latest ...

Car will debut about 2015 for equivalent of $8,500

Volkswagen is reportedly prepping an entry-level car for the Chinese market for as soon as 2015, according VW Head of Product Development Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg. The car is expected to retail for 53,650 Yuan or the current equivalent of $8,500...

In an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, a Volkswagen spokesman and VW's boss in Slovakia revealed the plans for Polo- and Up-based SUVs that will fit below the Tiguan in the VW lineup.  Volkswagen has already pro...

  Making green cars is one thing, but building green cars is just as difficult. Manufactures are moving to reduce waste and recycle energy when producing vehicles. Volkswagen plans to reduce the environmental impact of all of its factorie...

Volkswagens already owns 49.9% of Porsche, and it intends to finally finish its purchase by taking over 50.1% of the fabled sports car company some time this year. It is estimated that the rest of the shares will cost Volkswagen around &...

Volkswagen plans to dominate the Chinese market by 2018 and to increase sales it plans to open showrooms in smaller cities to lure more buyers. Small cities are projected to take 60% of new car sales by 2020, compared to 40% currently.  F...

Volkswagen is trying to make the hot hatch a little greener with the new Polo BlueGT. The sporty Polo uses cylinder deactivation and start/stop technology with a 1.4 TSI petrol engine with an output of 140ps but with fuel economy of 4.7l/100km and...

The new Volkswagen Polo has been elected as the 2010 World Car of the Year. The award was announced at the New York International Auto Show. The Volkswagen model ranked the highest in terms of merit, value, safety, environment, significance and emot...

Volkswagen has been working on its Polo R WRC for over a year. The car will take another test at the Rally d'Italia in Sardinia in October. The car had run as the zero car, which is the car that checks the stage by going first, at the Acro...

The compact SUV is becoming the new hot model niche in Europe. Every major manufacturer either already has or is planning a model to fit into the market. Nissan got a jump on everyone with the Juke, but Volkswagen is planning a Polo-based SUV to t...