Volkswagen Golf News

This is Volkswagen's hardcore Scirocco R, the most potent variant yet of the firm's Golf-based three-door coupe.

Like other models bearing the BlueMotion badge, the Passat has been optimized to drive down the fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.

JAPANESE cars are no longer the most reliable, according to an independent survey of more than three quarters of a million models in which more than half of the top-rated cars are now made in Europe.

Aside from the sheetmetal changes that accompany the new Golf lineup, the GTI retains its entertaining handling, sweet turbocharged engine, available dual-clutch transmission, and a choice of three- and five-door hatchback body styles.

THE Golf has long been the standard-setter in its class and there must have been much scratching of heads at Volkswagen about how to improve it again for the Mark VI version.

The photo last week gave a bit of the 2010 Volkswagen Golf, a small hatchback that is entering its sixth iteration.

Let's get this out of the way first: The Volkswagen GTI is based on the new 2010 VW Golf.

Dan Proudfoot Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 5:59PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov.

The sixth-generation Volkswagen Golf, heralded by European automotive media as World Car of the Year, finally comes to U.S. showrooms this fall and instantly is the most fuel-efficient nonhybrid compact car for 2010.

America is a nation that drives. Sadly, for many it's a chore, a necessary slog off to work or shuttling the kids about.

The Porsche Panamera is the Automobile Journalists Association of Canadaa s prestige vehicle of the year for 2009 and is considered the favourite to be selected AJACa s Car of the Year in February at the Toronto auto show.

Sports/Performance Lively beats brawny in battle of performance cars 2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI The Germans take the Sporting prizes, with VW's GTI the victor in the under $50,000 group, and Audi S4 in the over $50,000 category Michael Bettencourt From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov.

November 4, 2009: Volkswagen of America, Inc. today announced the Jetta TDI Cup "Street" Edition will be available in dealer showrooms January 2010.

Sold in the States as the Volkswagen Rabbit, the early front-wheel-drive hatchback had a transverse-mounted 1.5-liter four-cylinder rated at just 70 horsepower.

DRIVING aficionados face a wait of another four months to get their hands on the fastest models yet built by Volkswagen.

CC, Volkswagen's stylish four door coupe performed exceptionally well for the month with 2,349 unit sales, representing its best sales month since March.

It's over: Production of the first-generation VW Golf has ended after 35 years. The last units have rolled off the production line in Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in the past weeks, but the car will be available as long as supplies lasta 'likely until early 2010, VW South Africa announced today.

Whose idea was it to toss out the Jetta Wagon and replace it with this Golf Wagon? I suppose we'll never know if it was product planning, marketing or a command from on high, or more likely a collective decision from all of the above.

Winfried Vahland, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group China, said in an interview that average fuel consumption of its domestically produced cars declined by 17 percent this year from 2005, so the company will have "no problem" achieving its target of a 20 percent reduction in 2010.

Today is Halloween, but no tired jokes about green pumpkins here. It's the end of the month, so it's time to look at the most popular posts on GreenCarReports.com over the last 30 days, which include items on hybrids, clean diesels, and two on the Tesla electric car.