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Nine Volkswagen apprentices will present a project that they have been working on since October 2011 at the Wörthersee GTI meet on May 31 in Reifnitz, Austria. The group's goal was to style their own interpretation of the GTI. ...

Volkswagen's brands are bringing a host of concepts to the Wörthersee Tour in Reifnitz, Austria, on May 16. Audi, Skoda and Seat will all have concepts at the show. Wörthersee started as a car show purely for GTI enthusiast...

Volkswagen is spending €250 million to build an engine factory in Kaluga, Russia, that will be completed in 2015. It will build VW's new EA211 engines. When completed the factory will be able to produce 150,000 engines a year, and the...

The Caddy Edition 30 is a concept that Volkswagen is showing at the Frankfurt Motor Show that VW describes as, “near-production.” It celebrates the 30th anniversarry of the Caddy model.  The Caddy started its life as a pick-up truck...

Volkswagen is revealing the Caddy Cross and Amarok Canyon at the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hanover. Both vehicles show Volkswagen's continued support for off-road vehicles.  The Amarok Canyon is simply a concept of the current A...

Sales in China are doing especially well for both companies

Volkswagen Cars and Audi are two of the most important brands in the Volkswagen Group family and often show the future of the group. And that future continues to appear to be in Asia, especially China. Both brands saw double-digit sales in China f...

All the German automakers are adding more electrified models

The European automakers lagged behind the Japanese for nearly a decade when it came to hybrids and EVs, but when they got serious about it, it came in a hurry. Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn says that the German government’s goal to ...

Since the introduction of the New Beetle over a decade ago, Volkswagen has been presenting concepts inspired by its other classic - the Microbus. As VW AG tries to double US sales volume by 2018 to one million vehicles annually, it is looking into...

Volkswagen has recently unveiled the Cross Coupé concept at the Tokyo Motor Show. The vehicle has been well received and it may well become a competitor for the Range Rover Evoque. According to VW R&D boss Ulrich Hackenberg the compact ...

The Volkswagen plans to spawn several variants of its Up city car. At the Frankfurt Auto Show, it showed off a five-door version of the car, which we know is coming next year, and a GTI-esque version for the Up. The Cross Up is meant to be the sof...