VW’s R line does spruce up the Polo and give it a sportier edge. At least from a looks perspective anyway. Changes include: revised front and rear bumpers, front grille, new-look fog lamps and a revised interior featuring leather bucket seats, aluminium pedals and sporty steering wheel. The R-line is only available for the 1.2 TSI Polo variant. [...]

The VW group has made a €750 million offer to purchase Ducati. This is slightly less than the original asking price and financial analysis has also concluded that Ducati was in less debt than originally thought. What does this mean? Well surely more negotiations will take place untill the final barter is agreed upon however [...]

VW has launched a special edition GTI to celebrate its 35th anniversary. If we are honest the GTI is an iconic car if not the most iconic car ever made however over the past few years it has become fat and there has been vicious rivals. With the Edition 35, VW aims to highlight the significance of the Golf GTI and highlight [...]

 The next generation Golf will be unveiled at the 2012 Paris motor show. The new model will feature a whole new platform that will allow VW to fit a variety of bodies and engine variants.  We are also told that the next GTI will be in line with the original GTI’s core characteristics. This should [...]

270HP is what the standard Golf R comes with. That’s not bad but tuning house Siemoneit pushes that figure up to 530HP with the addition of a big ass turbo, a new induction system, a new exhaust, a tweaked ECU, and a new intercooler. Remember the v10 bmw m5 comes with 500 horses so 530 [...]

Much has changed about the way we commute today. In South Africa especially, the traffic levels are forever rising in the city, the police are speed trapping aimlessly, fuel prices will soon cost more than caviar and let me not even start on the clichéd South African taxi. So what can you do in this [...]

The new VW golf R has arrived on South African shores. Here is some information on the new hot hatch from VW. Although the new Golf R seems to pack the punch, the refined and somewhat restrained looks may invite easy prey at the lights. The Golf R features a 2 litre 4 cylinder turbo [...]

Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah was declared the winner of the 2011 Dakar Rally Argentina Chile on Saturday when he crossed the finish line in Buenos Aires 49 min 41 sec ahead of Volkswagen team-mate Giniel de Villiers of South Africa and 1 hr 20 min 38 sec in front of last year’s winner Carlos Sainz of [...]

A flooded, muddy landscape greeted the weary survivors of the Dakar Rally Argentina Chile on Friday morning following heavy rain overnight in the San Juan area of Argentina, but it was not enough to interrupt the three-car Volkswagen caravan that continues to head the 2011 edition of the world’s longest and toughest motor race. At [...]

Volkswagen 1-2-3 on Dakar Rally with two stages remaining; Giniel de Villiers second The fat lady hasn’t sung yet, but the outcome of the 2011 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile was pretty well decided on Thursday’s stage 11 between Chilecito and San Juan in Argentina. Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah drove his diesel-powered Volkswagen Race Touareg [...]

The Dakar Rally has a new leader.  Nasser Al-Attiyah led a magnificent Volkswagen 1-2-3-4 on the rally’s eighth stage on Monday.  On the most difficult stage so far, all four Volkswagen Race Touareg 3s did not miss a beat. The Qatari driver dominated a long and demanding stage, the most difficult so far, to score [...]

Al-Attiyah wins his first stage on Dakar 2011 Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah won his first stage on the 2011 Dakar Rally on Tuesday when he led home a Volkswagen 1-2 in the 500-km special stage between San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina. Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz retained his overall [...]

Volkswagen maintained its early grip on the 2011 Dakar Rally in South America with defending champion Carlos Sainz piloting his Race Touareg 3 to a second successive special stage victory between Cordoba and San Miguel de Tucuman in Argentina on Monday.  Three of the four factory-entered Volkswagens finished in the top four on the day’s [...]

Volkswagen’s quest for a third successive Dakar Rally victory began on Saturday as the 33rd running of the world’s longest and toughest motor sport event got underway in Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires.  A total of 407 cars, trucks, bikes and quads started the epic 9 500-km 16-day journey through Argentina and Chile. First [...]

VW’s ever successful Dakar history has placed their TDI technology on a plaque. However with the new Touareg 3, will they achieve fame once more, or will the ultimate rally prove to be too difficult, we wait and see. Here is the Dakar preview from Volkswagen: It takes a perfect combination of technological expertise and [...]