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Click image for photo gallery"Obsessively covering the auto industry" means that when presented with an opportunity to check out some historically interesting cars, we do it. If you don't like station wagons, you might want to scroll down and check out one of our other articles for the time being. F......

As station wagon lovers ourselves, we were just as disappointed as many of you were when we heard the news that the new Jetta Sportwagen had been delayed due to a plant fire which destroyed 12,000 - 15,000 cylinder heads. After all, with nearly as much space as the average SUV or minivan but with m......

When an automaker introduces any kind of expensive technology, one of the first things it does is to try to distribute the cost of production of said tech across its lineup. For Volkswagen, that could include stuffing their new diesel mill into the vehicle-formerly-known-as-the-Golf, the Rabbit. Gre......

Are you impatiently waiting to check out VW's new Jetta Sportwagen? Looks like you'll be waiting a bit longer. Autoblog has confirmed a rumor on the VW Vortex forums that the August launch of VW's new Jetta wagon has been delayed. The posting on the forums said an engine plant fire was to blame, but......

Hybrid-electric cars are seen by many as the most effective way of saving the environment, while diesels are often shunned as being dirty, smog-producing motors designed for trucks. This anti-diesel view couldn't be further from the truth. Modern diesel engines in many cases offer superior mileage t......

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......

Volkswagen dealers in the U.S. are complaining about getting fewer vehicles and the wrong models from the German automaker. The Financial Times newspaper reported that VW dealers rated the automaker at the bottom of the list in most categories in an annual dealers' attitude survey. Slow new Je......

April 2005 sales of the new Jetta didn't match those of the year before and it's not for lack of a good product. Volkswagen shipped mostly high-end Jettas with sticker prices eclipsing those of the larger Passat. The base Jetta with a manual stickers for about $18,000. Those waiting for the GLI, Jet......

The Touareg and Phaeton didn't do it. VW lost $1.2 billion in North America last year and products that push into the $60,000 mark was not going to turn that around. Volkswagen is preparing 13 new models in the next 2 years including a small SUV, Jetta wagon and a convertible. The Beetle will ......

WK: The little Korean brand that "could" is getting ready for quite a 2006. Three brand new sedans are waiting in the wings, and while none of them are styling masterpieces, they take solid aim at the heart of each market. The Sonata sat on the side of the stage watching its smaller sibling, the Acc......