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Volkswagen's Up has been awarded the Advanced Award by Euro NCAP for its City Emergency Braking system. The car had already gotten a five-star score in the Euro NCAP crash test. That gives the Up the highest safety rating by Euro NCAP of any c...

Volkswagen is upgrading the Amarok for 2013 with more power and added models. For the new model year, buyers in Europe and Russia will be able to buy the double cab version. The tailgate can now hold a 200kg load. The tow rating for all Amaroks is...

Volkswagen is upgrading the Beetle in Europe with two new engines - a 2.0-litre 140 PS TDI diesel engine and a 2.0-litre 200 PS TSI turbocharged petrol engine.  The 2.0 TSI accelerates the Beetle to 100km/h in 7.5 seconds with a 139mph to...

Each VW Group factory has to set goals for lowering material use and emissions by 2018

Volkswagen wants to be the world’s cleanest automaker. It is working to clean up its factories as much as it has been cleaning up its cars. Its factory cleanup initiative is called Mach 18 that attempts to clean up all of its factories by 20...

VW wants to boost falling US sales

Volkswagen thinks that putting the seven-passenger CrossBlue concept into production in the US will help boost falling sales there. Volkswagen desperately needs to perform better in North America. Despite being one of the world’s largest aut...

Volkswagen Motorsport has announced that it will campaign two Polo R WRCs in the World Rally Championship in 2013. There has been a plan to campaign as many as five Polos in the WRC next year, but the team plans to add a third car later.  ...

Power comes from a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6

Volkswagen's Wörthersee-Treffen 2013 begins on May 8, and it has saved one of its biggest surprises for last. Its big concept will be the Design Vision GTI racecar with 496hp from a special twin-turbo V6 engine.  The Design Visio...

2010 was the most successful year in the history of the Volkswagen Group. Last year the German Group saw its revenue increase by 20.6 percent to €126.9 billion, with the Automotive Division registering most of the €21.7 billion growth....

Automatic parking will be available in the near future

Nissan has announced that its goal is to have affordable, autonomous cars on sale by 2020, but Volkswagen is staking its claim and touting its own driver assistance systems. Volkswagen calls its assistance systems “Vision Zero,” an...

It appears that Volkswagen is getting more serious about the XL1. It was caught testing at the end of August and VW Head of Product Development Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg said that it will build 50 of them in 2013 with a goal of 5,000 a year in the fut...