Posts Tagged ‘new golf’

VW R32: So fast you’ll need shorter songs

Friday, June 15th, 2007
To emphasize just how quick its new Golf R32 hot-hatch really is, Volkswagen has mailed out a CD to potential customers and dealers containing some very short road-trip songs. The album, simply titled 'Short Car Songs,' contains three short classics, such as 'One Green Bottle,' 'It's a long way to T......

Frankfurt Preview: VW Golf BlueMotion gets over 52 mpg

Friday, June 8th, 2007
click above image for galleryFresh from ditching its collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on BLUETEC diesel technology, Volkswagen will be showing its newest economical diesel offering at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month – the Golf BlueMotion. BlueMotion is VW's own line of ultra fuel-efficient car......

Spy Shots: Gen VI Volkswagen Golf/Rabbit spotted

Friday, May 25th, 2007
KGP Photography was spending its weekend in beautiful Death Valley when its photogs snapped a whole lot of pics of the next VW Rabbit in testing. Judging from the VW engineer flipping off the camera (will they ever learn how bad that looks?), we're pretty sure the Volkswagen testers didn't want any ......

Spy Shots: 6th gen. VW Golf

Friday, April 27th, 2007
Motor Trend's hired guns captured a singular shot of the next generation Golf, and the lack of camo gives us a small glimpse of what's to come in the next few years.The exposed rear hatch shows a somewhat redesigned back end, complete with prototype tail lamps and a restyled boot. The lack of a head......

UK: VW Golf GT Sport drives in under GTI

Friday, March 30th, 2007
Click image to enlargeThe Golf lineup in the UK gets a slight reshuffling as Volkswagen consolidates two models -- the Golf GT and the Golf Sport -- into one, the new Golf GT Sport. The car gets a sporty outward look, with black headlight surrounds, a front end treatment that recalls the R32 and GTI......

Spy Shots: VW Golf R36

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
For those following the development of Volkswagen's hottest of hot hatches, it's common knowledge that the automaker has been hard at work adapting the engine from the R36 Passat to fit within the confines of the new Golf. Hans Lehmann and his clandestine photogs were able to catch this new breed of......

Profits are up, but is there still cause to worry about VW?

Friday, January 19th, 2007
We've been all over the Geneva Motor Show the past couple of days and there's an awful lot to report in terms of new concepts and product unveilings. Europe's biggest fish of all, Volkswagen, hasn't had a grand-slam show, but they've unveiled the new Phaeton (the current Phaeton flopped in the US bu......

Geneva Motor Show: Volkswagen Golf Variant officially introduced

Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Click image for high-res photo galleryYesterday in Geneva, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn officially introduced the world to the new Golf Variant. Early reports, including a VW press release issued in late February, indicated that the car would launch with a pair of gasoline and a pair of diesel ......

Autobild has info on 2008 VW Golf Mk VI

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
As we reported earlier, Volkswagen is rushing the sixth generation Golf (now the Rabbit again in U.S. and Canada) to market two years ahead of schedule because of the current fifth generation's poor performance in the marketplace. VW's main task for the 2008 Golf Mk VI is to build it cheaper, faster......

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......