Posts Tagged ‘car vw’
Peugeot is a long way off from its ambitious target of selling 4 million units annually by the end of the decade. This year its sales projects put it at 2 million, but chief executive Jean-Philippe Collin has a plan in place to reach the targets set out by parent company PSA.The plan involves expans......
Coming to America: Street legal KTM X-Bow
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Click above for a hi-res gallery of the KTM X-Bow
Although KTM has been making motorcycles since 1934, it's new to the car business. Evidently, no one told them that if you're going to go back on something you said in the auto business, it's supposed to be really disappointing. Instead, KTM has anno......
Sabine Schmitz coming to America, leaving the ‘Ring
Monday, August 11th, 2008
APR Motorsport, the racing arm of the APR tuning company, has brought Mistress of the 'Ring Sabine Schmitz to the U.S. for two rounds of the KONI Grand Am Challenge Series. Driving a Golf GTI in the Stock Tuner class, Schmitz is replacing Randy Pobst.Sabine's visits are for the round just completed ......
Spy Shots: Suzuki Kizashi prowls the strip mall
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Suzuki has teased us with three separate Kizashi concept cars and finally told us that a production vehicle based on the last concept would be coming to America in 2010. Work is apparently underway on the new Camcord competitor, and proof of Suzuki's efforts have appeared in a Southern California pa......
Will the rear-engine Volkswagen be revived?
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
When Volkswagen created the New Beetle in the late '90s, it revived the iconic shape of the original people's car, but not much else. The original was pushed around by an air-cooled boxer four-cylinder that ultimately provided the basis for the first Porsche engines and countless dune buggies and ki......
Step away from the car: VW Polo magnetic dent promotion
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
We've seen some strange marketing campaigns from automakers before, but this one is just dumb. The folks in charge of marketing over at Volkswagen decided that they needed some hands-on advertising to push their little Polo, so they came up with large magnets that look like car dents to put on other......
SEMA: VW R GTI packs 375 HP punch
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
click on image to enlargeAt last year's SEMA show, VW introduced a trio of R Concept cars that included a 500-hp Jetta, 500-hp Touareg and 575-hp Passat. The new GTI wasn't available in the U.S. at the time and missed its ticket to Vegas. This year, however, the GTI made the trip to Sin City and in......
Free insurance not to continue for VW
Saturday, June 4th, 2005
Volkswagen tested a free insurance incentive in two states in which drivers who bought or leased a new Golf, New Beetle or New Beetle convertible received a year of free insurance. VW says the incentive worked but does not plan to expand the program to more cars or different states. VW dea......