VW insiders have revealed that the company plans to launch a 2009 VW GTI soon after the release of the 2009 VW Golf . The new GTI will use a 211 HP 2.0-liter four-cylinder, gaining 11 HP over the current model, but still far short of rivals like the 2008 MazdaSpeed3 and 2009 Subaru WRX . A more powerful...

Filed under: Hatchbacks , Volkswagen Click above for high-res gallery of the VW Golf VI In what may be the least shocking news you will read today, Volkswagen will indeed be launching a revised GTI model shortly after its recently revealed sixth-generation Golf (or, Rabbit, as it's known in the U...

From the leaked images floating around on the Internet yesterday, we suspect Volkswagen is about to make some kind of announcement about their next Golf; Little did we know that it will be so soon. Today Volkswagen AG has officially announcing the next generation of their most important model. With an...

Filed under: Motorsports , Volkswagen Click above for high-res gallery of the VW Scirocco GT24 Ever since 2006, when Peugeot, Skoda and Mitsubishi pulled their factory works teams out of the World Rally Championship, the WRC has been desperate to attract another major automaker back to reinvigorate the...

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition , where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot . Today we're going to check out a couple of cars that live in the oil-mad city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, courtesy of loyal reader Ferli . Make the...

The slow trickle of information on the new VW Golf has now become a deluge with VW releasing official information on the German Rabbit. We've already heard what the European pricing will be, and now, thanks to the press release, we can see the turbodiesel engine range will have common-rail direct...

Filed under: Government/Legal , Porsche , Volkswagen , UAW/Unions Porsche wants to purchase Volkswagen, this much we know. But before that happens, the huge labor union at VW needs to agree on terms with Porsche management. This, as you may imagine, is proving a bit more difficult than Porsche had hoped...

Filed under: Economy , Euro , Hatchbacks , Volkswagen Click above for high-res gallery of the VW Golf VI Following the internet's unofficial, unscheduled and probably unwanted (at least by Volkswagen) reveal of the sixth-generation Golf this week, VW has thrown its cards on the table and revealed...

Volkswagon had planned to reveal the sixth generation of the Golf this week; but even the German hatchback images have slipped out earlier, allowing for a glimpse. The designers have worked on the[...]

Here's a full load of shots of the next-generation Volkswagen Golf VI, revealed thanks to the magic of the Internet. If we're to believe the statements we've heard from our nation's VW team, the new Golf is expected to come stateside at the end of next year. While we don't have details...