These are the first pictures of the new VW Polo GTi, which will be unveiled at next month’s Geneva motor show ahead of UK sales starting in August.
At its heart is a 1.4-litre TSI engine that uses a supercharger from idle through to 3,000 rpm at which point the turbocharger cuts in to provide boost. The result is an output of 180 PS at 6,200 rpm and 184 lbs ft of torque from 2,000 rpm which, when aligned with a 1,184 kg kerbweight, allows the Polo GTI to ...
The new Polo BlueMotion is available to order from Volkswagen Retailers today, with prices starting at £14,445 RRP on the road for the three-door, and £15,045 for the five-door model.
The new Polo BlueMotion adopts an all-new 1.2-litre TDI three-cylinder common rail diesel engine developing 75 PS, and 133 lbs ft (180 Nm) of torque available from just 2,000 rpm.
This new engine, combined with longer gearing through the five-speed manual gearbox, regenerative braking and an automatic Start/Stop system, help the new Polo BlueMotion emit just 91 g/km of CO2 while returning ...
Volkswagen is recalling close to 200,000 units of its Novo Gol and Novo Voyage models built in Brazil for the local market, VW's third-largest, due to insufficient grease in rear wheel bearings in some cases.
"The rear wheels could lock if used continuously with insufficiently greased bearings. In extreme cases the wheel could work loose and potentially cause an accident," it said on Thursday.
Vehicles produced after July 2009 are not affected, it said. A relatively common occurrence due to the extreme complexity of most modern automobiles, recalls have grabbed headlines recently ...
Vw presented today the first official pictures with the 2011 Vw Touareg. From these pictures we can see a clearly new SUV here, and one of the most important things is that the new Touareg will be the first European SUV to feature a hybrid solution.
Design:
On the exterior, the new Touareg remains faithful to the principles of design that has established him, showing that creative people of Volkswagen wanted to sign a normal evolution of the current model.
Lines are more dynamic, more powerful, the front is borrowed from the smaller ...
Volkswagen, the world's third-biggest carmaker, aims to boost group vehicle sales by nearly 60 percent and improve profit margins by 2018 in its drive to unseat Toyota as the world's top carmaker.
The targets approved by the German group's management board on Tuesday underscore VW's ambitions to seize the industry lead before the decade is out.
Its plan is getting an unexpected boost from Toyota's quality stumbles that have knocked one of the Japanese juggernaut's key selling points.
VW earmarked vehicle sales of around 8 million in the medium term, rising to above ...
Volkswagen revised its previous assumptions for global car market sales lower by 67 million vehicles for the period through 2018, Automobilwoche reported, citing a letter presented to VW's top management.
"This means a loss for the global market during this period that is equivalent to an entire calendar year," said senior VW manager and former head of group sales Detlef Wittig in a letter presented to VW's executive board.
"This effect would lead to sustainably lower group deliveries to customers versus the previous plan, and as a result to a lower financial ...
Volkswagen AG, along with its Chinese partner FAW Group, plans to build a plant in south China to boost its share in the Japanese car-dominated market, Reuters reported today.
The new facility, Volkswagen's fifth in China, is based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and will make VW's Seat model, according to an executive from Volkswagen's China operations. The plant will have an initial annual production capacity of 200,000 units.
Volkswagen already operates four plants in the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Changchun and Chengdu, making Jetta, Bora, Golf, Sagitar, Audi among ...
Volkswagen has won the legendary Dakar Rally for the second time in succession. The Volkswagen duos and their TDI powered Race Touareg prototypes celebrated a one-two-three podium lockout at the finish of the toughest challenge in motorsport.
In the process, Carlos Sainz / Lucas Cruz (E/E) triumphed by only 2 minutes 12 seconds ahead of team mates Nasser Al-Attiyah / Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) in a thrilling finale on the closing 202 kilometre sprint on the 14th and final rally day. Mark Miller / Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA) claimed third ...
Volkswagen Group will consider entering Formula One in the future if the costs become lower, according to a senior Audi official.
Reinhold Carl, managing director of Audi Singapore, told the Straits Times newspaper that the VW Group would consider an entry if the benefits outweighed the costs involved.
"If the cost is lower, it will be more manageable," said Carl. He claimed despite the cost cutting measures ongoing in the sport, the cost for entry were "well over a hundred million euro [£92.5m]" per year.
The German car manufacturer revealed at the end ...
As Volkswagen unveiled a concept coupe Monday at the Detroit auto show, the automaker made it clear that it views the U.S. as a crucial market.
Volkswagen expects to double its market share from 2% to 4%, selling as many as 450,000 vehicles in the U.S. in the next three to four years. The automaker expects to be profitable in North America in 2013 as it launches new vehicles built in the U.S.
"Volkswagen is at home in America," said Stefan Jacoby, CEO of Volkswagen American operations.
VW plans to ramp up production ...
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