Volkswagen Shatters Pikes Peak Record
Volkswagen’s new electric racing car shattered the existing Pikes Peak record with a run up the iconic mountain in Colorado…
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2019 Volkswagen Jetta Touts Turb-Whoa
Volkswagen is trying to make you forget about all that emissions scandal stuff by touting their 2019 Jetta as having “Turb-Whoa” when they debut their television ads this weekend. The 2019 Volkswagen Jetta is expected to be available this month…
Volkswagen Has A Red Flashy Thingy You Might Be Interested In
It is called the Polo – and Volkswagen would like you to give it a whirl…
Will The Volkswagen Tiguan Save You From A Meteor?
The answer is most likely, probably – no – especially if said meteor actually hits the vehicle. But you can fit a lot of your stuff in the Tiguan before it gets obliterated by the meteor, so there’s that…
Volkswagen Advertises By Showing Other Cars
Volkswagen is advertising their Golf by showing kids dreaming about other cars – in this case, a DeLorean, Lamborghini Aventador, Bugatti, giant pink Chevy truck, etc. – in their most recent commercial entitled “Kids’ Dreams.” Of course, most of those brands are already owned by Volkswagen, so it is not as startling as if they […]
Volkswagen Will Produce A Microbus Again…In 2022
Volkswagen will finally produce a successor to its wildly popular Microbus of yore – but not until 2022. Volkswagen’s 2022 Microbus will be an electric vehicle, based on VW’s new electric modular platform, which is currently set for production of a VW hatchback in 2020. The 2022 VW Microbus will also have one of its […]
Volkswagen Encourages You To Press The Button
Using movie imagery – Star Wars, James Bond and Raiders of the Lost Ark, amongst them – Volkswagen encourages you to press the button on the Golf GTE…
Even A Blind Guy Can See The 2018 Volkswagen Arteon
Volkswagen used a blind guy to sell their new 2018 Volkswagen Arteon – specifically, blind visual artist Pete Eckert, who was sighted for approximately half his life. The 59-year-old Eckert, from Portland, Oregon, was well on his way to being a full-fledged sighted architect when retinitis pigmentosa intervened at age 28 and deprived him of […]
A 1964 Type 34 Volkswagen Ghia Emerges From Jay Leno’s Garage
The 1964 Volkswagen Type 34 Ghia was never available in the USA [but it should have been!] so here is a 53-year-old car that you may be seeing for the first time…
Barry’s Beetle Story
Volkswagen is hoping you will forget all that emission cheating stuff and remember it is the holiday season with this story of Manchester pub-restaurant manager Barry Openshaw, who shared his reminiscences of his dad’s Volkswagen Beetle 1300 from the 1970s….
Volkswagen Vs. Alien
Volkswagen is promoting their vehicles as safe havens against any rampaging alien creatures you may happen to come across today…
What Does Jay Leno Have Coming Out Of His Garage?
Why, it is a 1966 Volkswagen Beetle…or is it? Well, it is on the outside…but on the inside and many other places, it is most definitely not… ‘
What Was The Naked Ute?
What is this? A commercial that is not a Super Bowl commercial? And just what is a Naked Ute anyway? A University of Utah student? No, it is an advertising campaign by Volkswagen run Down Under where they stripped an Amarok truck and challenged people to try and figure out what sort of vehicle it […]
Backing Up A Trailer Is Easy, Right?
Of course it is! Instead of watching Ricky and Lucy [or Nicky and Tacy, if you wish] in “The Long, Long Trailer” – watch this instead [if Volkswagen can be believed, of course]…
Audi/Volkswagen Hops Into Bed With Red Bull
Shortly after Renault filed for divorce from Red Bull and, possibly, Formula One, from the 2016 season onward, Red Bull is being rumored to be hopping into bed with Audi/Volkswagen – but not before Red Bull has a brief fling with Ferrari in the 2016 and 2017 seasons. According to the rumors, Red Bull will […]
Massive Chinese Explosion Claims Lives And Volkswagens
Yesterday’s massive liquid hydrocarbon-enhanced 21-ton explosion at a shipyard in Tianjin, China, claimed 44 lives as well as thousands of Volkswagens waiting to be shipped to their destinations. According to officials, the total vehicle loss for Volkswagen [and their insurance company] was 2748 vehicles burnt to a crisp. Volkswagen’s SUV Touaregs took the biggest hit, […]
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Trailer – Volkswagen Bug Police Car
A Volkswagen Bug police car is the next automotive guest on this week’s episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” – along with comedian/talk show host Bill Maher…
Audi/Porsche/VW Says “Nein!” To Formula One…For Now
Although the Audi/Porsche/Volkswagen automotive company discarded its main obstacle to potential Formula One participation – its chairman of the board, Ferdinand Piech – last week, the company is officially saying, for now anyway, that they have no immediate interest in participating in Formula One racing. Speculation had intensified about Audi/Porsche/VW’s possible participation in F1 after […]
Ferdinand The Bull Leaves VW
Ferdinand Piech, the longtime overlord of Volkswagen – the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and second largest in the world behind Toyota – has left the company after losing a power struggle with current CEO Martin Winterkorn. The 78-year-old Piech is the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the inventor of the original Beetle, and has been […]
Volkswagen GTI Supersport Joins Gran Turismo 6 Vision Series
Volkswagen has become the latest manufacturer to have a car represented in the video game Gran Turismo 6 Vision Series…