If you’re in love with this car, but reside within the U.S., you’re out of luck: Volkswagen has no plans to bring its new Scirocco, unveiled this week at the Geneva Motor Show, to the United States. We hear it’s a matter of monetary exchange that’s preventing the three-door from heading our way, but there [...]
Volkswagen has released the first official video of the Golf based Scirocco coupe that’s set to be launched Europe-wide in late summer with prices in Germany starting at € 21,750 or $33,050 (exchange rates on March 4, 2008); other countries will follow over the course of the next year. The four-seater Scirocco will initially be [...]
If you were disappointed by VW’s decision not to shoehorn its potent 3.6L V6 into the Golf then you’ll be glad to hear German company HGP has gone ahead and done it. However, not content with the 300hp output of the naturally aspirated mill, the tuner has added a pair of turbochargers and boosted power [...]
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson gets a chance to drive Volkswagen’s Golf GTI W12 650 concept car on the latest episode of Top Gear, and as you’d expect the 6.0L bi-turbo W12 shoe-horned under the bonnet is nothing short of amazing. This hot little hatch pumps out 650hp and 750Nm through the rear wheels and [...]
When the Volkswagen R32 first arrived stateside, enthusiasts gave the hot hatch a hero’s welcome. The all wheel-drive, VR6-powered Alpha rabbit made its pre-GTI siblings look like a bunch of ectomorphic accountants at a supermodel slumber party. The R32 was rare, fast, agile, sharp-looking and tighter than the Osmond family at Thanksgiving dinner. The latest [...]
The humble VW Golf has come a long way over its 30 year history. No longer just an affordable econo-box, the Golf has grown substantially in both size and weight with each new generation and now comes with niceties you’d expect in much more expensive metal. Build quality is better than some luxury makes and [...]
Volkswagen surprised us all when it displayed the twin-turbo W12 powered Golf GTI 650 concept car at May’s Wörthersee 2007 Auto Show. The concept featured a twin-turbo 6.0L W12 mated to a six-speed manual transmission, and it’s styling was so dramatic that we thought we’d put up a gallery of new images of the super-hatch.
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The folks at AutoCar got a chance to test drive the 641 horsepower Volkswagen Golf GTI W12. The Volkswagen Golf GTI W12 gets its 6.0 liter W12 engine from a Bentley giving it the ability to produce 641 horsepower and performance that is up to par with the Porsche 911 Turbo. The little Golf GTI [...]
In the automotive world, if a vehicle can’t adapt to a changing market, it dies. That threat looms over SUVs and is a fate the Touareg wants to avoid. Enter the Touareg 2. Volkswagen’s revisions to the fifth-year model aren’t all apparent to the eye, and most fall under one heading - refinement. It retains [...]
Volkswagen is replacing the existing Golf Sport and GT models with a single all-new model – the Golf GT Sport. The latest addition gets several unique features and is equipped with extra equipment over the models it replaces. An all-new darkened grille section has been revised to match the potent GTI and R32 variants and [...]
