Automotive Car |New Volkswagen Up unveiled| These are the first pictures of Volkswagen’s all-new Up hatchback, a model poised to become the company’s biggest seller and a key component in its plans to assume worldwide market leadership by 2018. Volkswagen will also manufacture the Up for the Indian market however it will be a four-door [...]
Automotive Car |One-seat VW for Frankfurt| Volkswagen will show a single-seat, electric, commuting car at next month’s Frankfurt show, according to press reports. It’s thought that if the concept makes production, it could be sold as a package with either a sustainable power supply or, possibly, with a solar panels package. Jurgen Leohold, VW’s head [...]
Automotive Car | Volkswagen Polo R WRC 2013| The new Volkswagen Polo from 2013 to use the R WRC rally racing was introduced New Polo R WRC, 1.6-liter TSI engine with 300 horse power. The four-wheel system and the transition towards becoming a model for improved aerodynamics and ambitious. Volkswagen Motorsport Director Kris Nissen, excited [...]
Automotive Car | Is the VW Bora (Jetta) Protect the world’s most fuel-efficient armored sedan? | The Volkswagen Bora Protect could possibly be the world’s most fuel-efficient, factory-built armored sedan. Powered by the automaker’s turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine and paired to VW’s six-speed dual-clutch gearbox, the Protect version of the Bora (called the Jetta [...]
Automotive Car | Skoda Rapid: a more affordable Czech Volkswagen Vento | The latest news from India is that Skoda is planning to revive the Skoda Rapid nameplate to launch its own version of the current VW Vento (Polo Sedan) for the Indian market, as well as other related markets where a sedan version of [...]
Automotive Car | 2011 CSR Automotive Volkswagen Scirocco | Originally from the 2009, Scirocco III was equipped with a turbocharged engine with an in-house body kit consisting of a single-frame front grille, side skirts and a rear apron from the O-Line-Design, the upper and lower rear wings, “bad-look” headlight trims and a stainless steel rear [...]
Automotive Car | Honk if you want to stop your VW Jetta | Volkswagen of America is recalling about 71,000 of the German automaker’s new 2011 Jetta sedans for a wiring problem that could cause the car to turn off when the horn is used. Under certain rare circumstances using the horn could cause a [...]
Automotive Car | Volkswagen to invest Rs 120 crore to start NBFC in India | German car maker Volkswagen today said it plans to make an initial investment of Rs 120 crore to launch its non-banking financial arm in India The firm said its group company Volkswagen Finance Private Ltd (VWFPL) has received licence from [...]
Automotive Car | 2014 Volkswagen Microbus – Feature | What it is: A modern interpretation of the original Volkswagen Bus. The new van is a rehash of the Microbus concept that VW showed 10 years ago under then-CEO Ferdinand Piëch—it was subsequently killed by his successor Bernd Pischetsrieder. The Microbus would replace the Chrysler-sourced Routan [...]
Automotive Car | Volkswagen’s Brazilian SP Coupe Turns 40 This Year | Volkswagen celebrates this year the 40th anniversary of the SP coupe, a car relatively unknown outside Brazil, its country of origin. Built by the company’s Brazilian subsidiary in the ’70s, the attractive coupe has an interesting story. In 1968 Rudolf Leiding, former CEO [...]
