Volkswagen

MONTEREY, California— As part of the festivities surrounding the 2019 Monterey Car Week, Volkswagen gave us the incredible opportunity to test drive its new, zero-emission ID. Buggy, which initially made its debut at the Geneva Auto Show in March. This one-off concept was hand-built by a small team of 30 …

Nearly everybody has a Volkswagen Beetle story to tell. A survey has never been done to our knowledge in Canada, but we’re quite convinced that a the very least, a third of us have an uncle, a parent or someone close that can tell you about their experience with the …

Quite officially, this is the last time we will be saying goodbye to the legendary, quirky and fun-loving Volkswagen Beetle . Well, at least to a petrol- or diesel-burning version. This is not the first time we say farewell to the car, as the last unit of the original Beetle …

For the average Joe, art essentially comes down to one question: do you like what you see or not? Historians, meanwhile, can spend countless hours analyzing creations and developing complex theories to explain their origins and meaning. After a hiatus of several years, Volkswagen has finally hit the market with …

After a brief hiatus in 2018, the Volkswagen Jetta GLI is back in 2019 to mark its 35th anniversary. The folks at VW insist that this is a genuine sports sedan and they wanted to leave no doubt about it by inviting us to a test drive on the legendary …

As you know, a new era at Volkswagen will debut when the German automaker hosts the world premiere of the ID.3 at the 2019 Frankfurt Auto Show on September 10. This car is the first in a series of next-generation, long-range electric vehicles to be sold by Volkswagen in the …

J.D. Power today released its 2019 Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study and found out that customers are increasingly satisfied with their new vehicles, mostly due to improvements in infotainment systems and increased availability of advanced driver-assist technologies. The study measures owners’ emotional attachment and level of excitement with …

Earlier this year, Ford and Volkswagen announced that they would join forces to develop commercial vans and medium pickups for key global markets starting in 2022. Following another round of discussions, the two automakers today said they will expand their alliance to include electric vehicles while also investing in Pittsburgh-based …

After we posted the Top 10 vehicles that scream “USA” last year, we thought we’d do something a little different this year to mark the national holiday of Americans. In order to appeal to more people and increase their market share in the world’s biggest economy, some automakers from Europe …

Remember the Volkswagen Scirocco? Sales of this Golf-based, three-door hatchback ended in Canada in 1989, and we never got the third and final generation (2008-2017) because the company feared it could negatively affect the Golf GTI. Also, the increasing gap between the U.S. dollar and the Euro made the Scirocco’s …

Volkswagen could soon announce the addition of a small new SUV in North America. The information, which comes just a few days after a report indicating that the Golf SportWagen and Alltrack won’t be back on our continent, surfaced from a product presentation by Volkswagen in Argentina. One of the …

As you’re well aware by now, Volkswagen is about to move on from Dieselgate in a big way by launching almost 70 new electric models within the next ten years. These will be led by the new ID. family, a name that stands for “Intelligent Design.” Today, we’ve found out …

Is there another car on the way out? During the weekend, Motor1 dropped a little bombshell by reporting that the base Volkswagen Golf will not return to the U.S. Actually, the website was told by a high-ranking VW employee in California that the eighth generation of the popular German hatchback, …