Volkswagen has announced a new Vehicle to Home feature that adds bidirectional charging to electric ID models. This means VW’s electric vehicles will now be able to power an entire family for two days using the energy stored in their batteries. This feature will be available for both new and...
The current eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf has been available since late 2019, but it took the Mk8 body almost two more years to reach the US exclusively in GTI and R variants. New photos of the updated VW Golf, which is already being tested, have surfaced online. The new Golf 8...
Volkswagen does not consider itself competitive. The company’s CEO, Thomas Schäfer, personally announced this at a staff meeting. Due to many of our pre-existing structures, processes and high costs, we are no longer competitive as the Volkswagen brand Of course, this statement does not mean that the company has decided...
Volkswagen turned to Magna Steyr, an Austrian automaker and engineering company, to help develop rugged vehicles for its revived American Scout brand. Local newspaper Kleine Zeitung reports the deal is worth nearly half a billion ($492 million). The German auto group announced it would bring back the Scout brand in...
Automakers are continuing to raise wages following a record UAW deal with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. Volkswagen announced that Chattanooga Assembly employees will receive an 11 percent pay increase starting in December. That’s not the only change, as the automaker is introducing a “shortened pay increase schedule” that will...
Volkswagen begins accepting orders for its new ninth generation Volkswagen Passat. The model is already available to order in several European countries, including Germany, starting at €39,995 for the base version with eTSI mild-hybrid technology. The new Volkswagen Passat offers a varied choice of engines, including traditional petrol and diesel...
A new generation Volkswagen Transporter T7 is being tested in Europe – the car, “wrapped” in camouflage, has appeared on public roads. In profile, this Transporter is very reminiscent of the Ford Transit Custom, and this is not surprising: in accordance with the previously concluded agreement, Ford is responsible for...
According to Autoevolution, Volkswagen will suspend its largest plant, located in Zwickau (Germany), for three weeks due to a shortage of engines. In particular, we are talking about the new 286-horsepower APP550 engine, which is equipped with the Audi Q4 e-tron and Volkswagen ID. 4 and ID. 5. The reason...
The Volkswagen Crafter is one of the most popular cars in its segment with sales of over 350,000 units of the previous generation alone. The 2024 Volkswagen Crafter gets an all-new infotainment system with a 10.3- or 12.9-inch screen on the dashboard, depending on the version. The transition to digital...
Just a few weeks ago, the Tiguan L 2024 was introduced in China and prices were announced, and now the car is being sold with discounts of up to $8,000. And this is not some kind of action by an individual dealer, but a centralized decision: in this way, Volkswagen...
Given the abundance of announcements of new electric vehicles, company statements that the future has already arrived, and legislation related to this market, one may get the impression that everything is developing well. However, for example, the Volkswagen Group announced that it had decided to build another plant for the...
Sales of the 2024 Volkswagen Tiguan L have started in China. The car has not changed externally or internally, but prices have been revised downward, and the equipment has also changed somewhat. The cost of the Volkswagen Tiguan L 2024 is in the range of 27.2-33.8 thousand dollars. There are...
Prototypes of the updated Volkswagen Golf have long been tested on expensive public roads, but it was only in early October that spy photographers saw the GTI for the first time. As Autocar reports, citing its own insiders, the updated Volkswagen Golf GTI will be released in early 2024 with...
A rare 1991 VW Golf Country is currently up for auction at Bring a Traile. The current bid is just $10,000, but there are still four days left before the auction ends. What is interesting about this car? The Country is based on a concept car and entered limited production....
Volkswagen has earned a reputation for producing reliable cars. A list of the 10 most reliable Volkswagen cars was compiled by the specialized publication HotCars. Data from Car Survey and JD Power were used to compile the rankings. Very few manufacturers have such a strong identity as the legendary Volkswagen....
Today, the Volkswagen Passat 2024 was presented in China. The car received a new dark blue color and two versions of the radiator grille: one with a three-dimensional pattern in the spirit of Mercedes-Benz cars, the other with traditional horizontal slats. The creators wanted to make the Passat more attractive...