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Sales for the year are up 3.1%

Volkswagen Cars sales fell 1.0% in August to 466,300 cars, but from January to August sales are up 3.1% to 3.84 million cars. “The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand is not immune to the effects of the ongoing very challenging situation on ...

European and American sales are down for the year

Volkswagen Cars sales increased 2% in October to 511,400 cars worldwide and is up 3.4% for the year from January to October to 4.88 million cars. However, those numbers belie the fact that China is the only major market where VW is seeing growth. ...

It hopes to save €1 billion in product costs in 2014

Volkswagen spent billions developing its modular MQB platform and updating its factories to build it. But according to Volkswagen finance boss Hans Dieter Poetsch, the platform is already saving the company money. Volkswagen Group expects to h...

Volkswagen head of product development Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg says that plans to produce the Bluesport eco-roadster are on hold, but it will build 50 of the super efficient XL1s in 2013.  “The car is fantastic, but the market does no...

New engines with up to 20 PS more power and up to 19 per cent more fuel-efficient

The first Scirocco was launched in 1974 as an agile coupe in the sports cars segment at a more affordable price. Two generations were marketed from 1974 to 1992 and in 2008 Volkswagen relaunched the model to its third generation. In 2014 the Germa...

Volkswagen continues to dominate the European auto industry as it announces that it has sold 4.21 million vehicles from January to September. It is the first time ever that the brand has sold over 4 million vehicles in the first three quarters of ...

Volkswagen has set a world distance record for a diesel car in the US in a Passat SE TDI Clean Diesel with a six-speed manual. The car took a three-day, 1,626 mile trip from Houston, Texas, to Sterling, Virginia averaging 84.1mpg. The car beat the...

It gets a more powerful engine, higher ride height and bigger wheels

Volkswagen will unveil the Beetle Dune Concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. It imagines a modern take on the Beetle off-roader with an all-terrain suspension and ski rack. VW claims that everything about the Beetle...

Volkswagen Group has concluded a two-day conference in Wolfsburg that brought together 400 environment experts from VW Group to discuss the company's future sustainability. The goal was to discuss ways to cut emissions and conserve energy both...

Volkswagen is giving its T Series of vehicles that includes the Transporter, Caravelle, Multivan and California two new, more powerful engine options in Europe for the new model year.  The first upgrade is a new TDI diesel with 140ps and ...