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Volkswagen first showed its E-Bugster concept at the North American International Auto Show in January. It has brought the car back to the Auto Salon China in Beijing but cut the top off to make it a roadster. Like the first E-Bugster concept, thi...

Uses 2.9kg/100km of CNG and has 79g/km of CO2 emissions

Volkswagen is adding a new Up to the range with the new Eco Up that runs on compressed natural gas (CNG) and emits just 79g/km of CO2. VW says that it is the most efficient car running on natural gas in the world.  The Eco Up uses the sam...

Volkswagen has bet on green technology at this year’s NAIAS as the German brand unveiled the Jetta Hybrid and the E-Bugster concept. The hybrid version of the compact sedan is world’s first hybrid to use a seven-speed dual-clutch autom...

The rally takes a difficult route through the Austrian Alps

Volkswagen is entering its XL1 and e-Up into the Silvretta E-Car Rally in the Austrian Alps. The rally is structured to test an electric car’s performance at the limits. There are long climbs up mountain roads that challenge the car’s ...

Beetle Convertible will replace it in US

The Volkswagen Eos will not get a successor on the new Volkswagen MQB platform, which means that the only convertible Volkswagen available in the US will be the new Beetle Convertible. Europe will have the Beetle Convertible and Golf Convertible, ...

Volkswagen has confirmed that it will be bringing the Golf R to the United States in 2012. The all-wheel drive is an answer to the American VW enthusiasts that had been asking for a hot hatch from the brand for a long time. For the U.S. market the G...

A man in the UK has driven his Volkswagen Mk.IV Golf S TDI over 450,000 miles in 10 years.  Roy Dyson bought his Golf TDI in 2002 when he moved in Devon, England. He and his wife wanted a vehicle with good fuel economy to make long drives...

He believes it will be sell more than 10 million cars a year by then

Volkswagen Group Chairman Dr. Martin Winterkorn predicts that the company will be the first automaker in the world to sell 10 million cars in a year, and it will do it before its goal of 2018. The key to the future will be continuing to perform we...

It is the first time that they have reached the milestone

While the individual brands may be up or down, Volkswagen Group sales from January to September are up 4.8% to 7.03 million cars. It is the first time that VW Group has sold over 7 million cars in the first three quarters. Sales in September alone...

In the first eleven months of 2010 the Volkswagen Group has already exceeded the number of deliveries from the whole year of 2009 and expects to reach the 7 million mark until the end of the year. With a growth of 12.7 percent, comparing to the same...