Volkswagen Beetle Germany’s most popular classic car

The Volkswagen Beetle reminds me of my childhood watching Herbi the Love Bug on TV. Most people would have fond memories of the Beetle be it their first car or someone in the family owned one.

In Germany the Volkswagen Beetle is the most registered car produced before 1979, with 44,540 still driving the streets. The [...]

2011 Volkswagen Touareg spy pics

Today’s spy pics show an actual prototype of the 2011 Volkswagen Touareg.

The 2011 Touareg will go on a crash diet and be some 300 kilograms lighter! This should certainly help the Touareg’s less-than-stellar fuel economy and improve handling. Along with its weight loss, we’re also hearing the chassis has in fact been lengthened by a [...]

2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI Review

I’m somewhere in the Victorian Alps with about forty-kilometres of clean, windy road ahead and I’m driving the new GTI at eight-tenths with former F1 driver Hans Stuck on my tail. Make that nine-tenths.
I’m carrying an awful lot of speed into these curves, and yet even in the tighter sections, the GTI is seemingly [...]

Volkswagen’s new mid-size sedan sketch released

In a bid to tackle big sellers, such as the likes of Camry and Accord Euro, Volkswagen is planning a new mid-sized sedan that will sit between its Jetta and Passat models.

The as yet unnamed sedan has so far been nothing more than a rumour, until this sketch was released by the manufacturer earlier today.
The [...]

Volkswagen launches greenest Golf yet

In July, CarAdvice brought you news that Volkswagen had announced a new, highly-efficient Golf model which returns 3.41L/100km on the combined cycle and emits just 107 g/km of carbon dioxide. Now a new model is available to order (not yet available in Australia) – the most efficient production Golf ever – which achieves 3.16L/100km combined [...]

2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI Preview

Golf GTI 2.0 Litre TSI 155kW 3 door 6-speed manual $38,990
Golf GTI 2.0 Litre TSI 155kW 3 door 6-speed DSG $41,490
Golf GTI 2.0 Litre TSI 155kW 5 door 6-speed manual $40,490
Golf GTI 2.0 Litre TSI 155kW 5 door 6-speed DSG $42,990

CarAdvice is currently on the launch of the new Volkswagen Golf V1 GTI, and will [...]

Volkswagen takes 49.9 per cent stake in Porsche

It was Porsche that originally tried to buy Volkswagen, now its Volkswagen buying Porsche, not all of it of course but just 0.1 per cent short of half ownership.

The agreement was finally reached after extensive talks between the two companies. As it stands now Volkswagen will acquire a “participation” in the operating business of Porsche [...]

German luxury marques boom in China

The booming Chinese car market continues to be one of the few bright spots for German luxury manufacturers, which have drawn few benefits from scrapping programs in the UK, US and Europe.
Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW all posted year-on-year volume gains of more than 35 per cent in the China last month in stark contrast [...]

2012 Volkswagen Golf VII leaked and rendered

In a recent promotional video to showcase their creative process, Volkswagen accidently included a full-sized clay model of the next generation Golf VII in the background of one of the shots.

While the offending clip was quickly removed, naturally our friends at Scoopy have pounced on this opportunity by creating a very accurate depiction of the [...]

2011 Volkswagen Touareg spy photos

We’ve seen mules of the next generation Volkswagen Touareg for some time but now we’ve got our hands on the very first photos of an actual next-generation Touareg prototype testing somewhere in the United States.

Sources are suggesting the new 2011 Touareg will be significantly lighter, rumors suggest up to some 300 kilograms than the current [...]

2011 Volkswagen Sharan spy pics

Our photographers managed to snap shots of the replacement of today’s Volkswagen Sharan, likely the German firm’s longest-selling vehicle since the Beetle.

The original debut of the current generation, not sold in Australia, was way back in February 1995 – almost 16 years before the second-gen Sharan will make its debut at the 2011 Geneva Show.
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