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Volkswagen Group has sold 2.16 million cars in the first quarter of 2012; it is the first time that the brand has ever sold more than 2 million cars in a quarter. It represents a 9.6% increase over over last year when the brand sold 1.97 million c...

The sales of the Volkswagen Group have grown above the global market in the first quarter of 2010. The Group has registered sales of 2.34 million vehicles in the first four months of this year, which represent an increase of 20.9 percent. In the same...

The Volkswagen Group has announced that it will be investing around €51.6 billion in its Automotive Division throughout the period between 2011 and 2015. This is a clear strategy with the objective of taking over Toyota’s spot as overall s...

VW is set to release a hot version of the up! The GT up! will follow VW's tried and tested route, making a high performance version of their small hatch back. The GT up! comes with a wide central grille which feeds air into the 100 PS engi...

Volkswagen has been among the leaders in creating applications to promote its cars. It has created iOS apps for the Polo, Scirocco, Touareg, two for the GTI and now a new one for Bluemotion vehicles, specifically the Passat and Polo. The app calle...

To celebrate the launch of the new 2012 Beetle in the United States, Volkswagen of North America has announced the Beetle Black Turbo. Limited to 600 cars and available through pre-order only, the Black Turbo comes only in black, obviously, and has a...

Golf GTE will be officially unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show

Volkswagen has unveiled the first pictures of the Golf GTE, a new plug-in hybrid version of the Golf hatchback that combines the benefits of electric mobility with the dynamics of a Golf GTI. The plug-in hybrid is due to make its debut at the Gene...

VW has won the last the Dakar rally for the last three years in a row, and it looks like that might be enough for it. The driver of the Dakar-prepped Touareg, Nasser Al-Attiyah, is moving to VW's World Rally team next year and is not interested in co...

The ten biggest automotive money losers since 1997

Automakers are generally smart when introducing a new model. They spend a lot of money to analyze the market, see what people want and create cars that will appeal to the largest market possible while remaining profitable. That is what makes it so...

Entire exterior covered in custom-made quilt

The Volkswagen Museum will have a very warm T3 Transporter in its collection until March. The entire car has been covered with a custom sweater made by employees of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.  The knitted sweater covers the entire tr...