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Mark Zuckerberg Drives a Volkswagen Golf. (No, Really!)

If you were the CEO of Facebook with a net worth of around $20 billion, what do you suppose you’d be driving to work every day? Would you even be the one driving or would you be relaxing in the back of a limousine? Most people with kind of money …January 7, 2014

Volkswagen Jumps Onboard the Vision Gran Turismo Project

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the famous Gran Turismo video game, creator Kazunori Yamauchi has established the ision Gran Turismo Project, inviting car manufacturers to develop a concept that will eventually end up in Gran Turismo 6. It didn’t take long for nearly thirty brands to join the project …January 6, 2014

Volkswagen Touareg X Will Make it to North America

It has been 10 years since Volkswagen marketed its first SUV, the Touareg. To celebrate this event, Volkswagen of America announced the release of the Touareg X Special Edition. Since the SUV’s release, it has sold over 700,000 Touaregs worldwide including 121,385 units in the United States. The Touareg X …December 5, 2013

Volkswagen Golf VII Wins "Japanese Car of the Year"

The Japanese have selected the seventh generation Volkswagen Golf as their "Car of the Year." In addition, it is the first time a non-Japanese car receives the honor. The contest for Japanese Car of the Year was first launched in 1980. The Volkswagen Golf VII won out against the other …November 27, 2013

Volkswagen Recalls 2.6 Million Vehicles

After massive recalls from General Motors in the 2000s and Toyota in 2010, it’s now Volkswagen’s turn to voluntarily recall 2.6 million vehicles worldwide. The majority of them are models sold in China. Among the problems identified the recalls consist of: - 800 000 Volkswagen Tiguans affected by lighting problems; …November 18, 2013

Volkswagen Opens Sixteenth Chinese Factory

Located in Ningbo, the factory creates 5,700 jobs and has an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles. It was built in collaboration with the Chinese manufacturer SAIC. It will manufacture both Skoda and Volkswagen vehicles. Production models use the MQB modular platform. The first vehicle to be assembled is the …October 29, 2013

Volkswagen Predicts Deliveries of 9.5 Million Vehicles in 2013

This news comes via a statement made by Martin Winterkorn, the chief executive of Volkswagen in an interview he gave to Reuters, at the Frankfurt Motor Show. If realized, this would be 200,000 units more than in 2012. However in order to achieve this goal, Volks will need to step …September 13, 2013

Volkswagen Alltrack to hit North American shores in 2014

Volkswagen is planning to bring a competitor to the Subaru Outback to North America as early as 2014, sources say. The vehicle will be similar to the Alltrack concept car pictured above. A Passat Alltrack currently exists in Australia but this new vehicle will be based on the Jetta SportWagen …August 6, 2013

Volkswagen sees profit slip 50 percent in Q2 due to one time Porsche effect

FRANKFURT, Germany - German automaker Volkswagen AG says net profit fell 50 per cent in the second quarter compared to the previous year, when earnings were boosted by a one-time accounting plus related to its takeover of Porsche. Excluding the Porsche effect, the company's operating earnings rose 1.8 per cent …August 1, 2013

Volkswagen Celebrates 40 Years of the Passat

Its longevity is greater than than the legendary Volkswagen Golf by one year. This means that the Volkswagen Passat arrived on the European market way back in 1973. Today, the car is still available in more than one hundred countries around the world, and, in its seventh generation. In 40 …July 31, 2013

Big Updates In Store For The 2014 Volkswagen Jetta

There's a big update in store for the 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, and it involves a number of changes underneath the compact sedan's skin aimed at improving its driving experience. In fact, it's not a stretch to say that these upgrades are worth waiting for, especially for buyers currently considering the …July 10, 2013

Volkswagen Golf GTD Coming To North America

The Volkswagen Golf GTD will indeed be offered for sale in North America. The high performance turbodiesel compact hatchback had previously been shown off at auto shows and to journalists earlier this year without a firm promise that the package would make its way across the Atlantic when the next-generation …July 3, 2013

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