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The refreshed and updated 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf R are about to land in Canada. Orders start today with the first units scheduled to arrive by mid-spring. That means we can now tell you about pricing, and unsurprisingly, the two hot hatches are substantially more expensive than the …

The Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan hasn’t just been postponed, it turns out. The Car Guide has learned straight from the automaker’s Canadian head of communications that plans for the car in North America have been cancelled. Dealers were informed through an email late last week. Ironically, Volkswagen first showed the …

With temperatures dropping to extremely cold levels in many parts of Canada and the U.S. this week, a new study provides updated data on electric vehicle performance in winter, more specifically battery range loss. It comes from Recurrent, the same company from the Pacific Northwest that we reported about a …

Representatives from the Canadian auto industry gathered in Ottawa on Tuesday morning to formally call for the end of the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandates brought in by the federal government in 2023 in the wake of Monday’s abrupt suspension of Transport Canada’s incentives program . Some automakers quickly reacted …

The winners of the 2025 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) awards were announced today during a press conference that kicked off the Detroit Auto Show, which is now back to its usual January timeslot. There weren’t really any surprises, except maybe in the Utility …

The Volkswagen ID.4 was arguably one of the losers of 2024 in the electric vehicle segment. Sales have been put on halt since late September due to a door handle issue that may cause the doors to open unexpectedly even when the vehicle is moving. A recall was also announced …

Hot on the heels of our Weird and Viral Automotive Stories of 2024 , let’s now take a look back at some of the biggest news and stories that defined the past year in the auto industry. We’ll also have compilations of the top new vehicles and concepts that made …

Crisis-hit auto giant Volkswagen said Friday it planned to cut 35,000 jobs by 2030 in Germany after reaching an agreement with unions on a drastic cost-cutting plan. The deal, reached at the end of marathon negotiations with labour representatives, will save Europe's largest carmaker around four billion euros ($6.3 billion …

Do you miss the standard Volkswagen Golf ? You’re not alone. Well, guess what? After leaving the North American market in 2021 so we could focus on the sportier and more expensive Golf GTI and Golf R , there’s a chance it may come back. According to a report from …

Today at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) awards organization named three cars, three trucks and three utility vehicles as its 2025 finalists. “The competition for these awards will be fierce this year,” said NACTOY President Jeff Gilbert. “We …