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  Volkswagen to finalise Thai investment by end-June?

  13 June 2008 / 35 comments

  According to Thai newspaper The Nation, Volkswagen is expected to meet the Thai Industry Minister Suwit Khunkitti and the Board of Investment (BoI) before July 2008 to finalise its proposed eco-car project investment in Thailand. […]

   

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  Bosch integrates stability control system into ECU

  12 June 2008 / 5 comments

  Bosch has developed a new ECU which has an integrated ESP controller as well as all the necessary sensors such as yaw-rate measurement sensors and lateral acceleration sensors. This results in a more compact ESP […]

   

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  Volkswagen’s Mark 6 will cost less to make

  10 June 2008 / 10 comments

  The Mark 6 Volkswagen Golf due to be unveiled by the end of this year will be immediately profitable for Volkswagen, unlike the current Mark 5 which only started being profitable 2 years after it […]

   

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  Volkswagen Golf GTI Test Drive Report

  10 June 2008 / 28 comments

  Click to enlarge A car many of you will be familiar with by now – having first seen it zooming past you on the road as a Wald in 2005 – the Mk V Golf […]

   

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  Volkswagen Golf Mk6 to get new 1.2 liter engine

  3 June 2008 / 11 comments

  The MkVI Volkswagen Golf will make its debut in October this year, which should lead to the next generation Volkswagen GTI soon after. The MkVI GTI should result in a few MkV GTIs to appear […]

   

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  Winterkorn threatens to quit if Porsche interferes

  3 June 2008 / 9 comments

  Porsche is allegedly slowly increasing its stake in Volkswagen from the current 31% to a supposed figure of more than 50%, and the two companies have released a joint special edition version of the Volkswagen […]

   

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  Volkswagen teams up with Sanyo for battery R&D

  28 May 2008 / 10 comments

  Volkswagen is partnering up with Sanyo to jointly develop high-performance energy storage systems, or in laymen speak batteries that can store LOTS of juice. According to Vee-Dub, Sanyo is currently the world’s biggest supplier of […]

   

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  Scirocco GT24 tops class in Nurburgring 24 hours

  28 May 2008 / 11 comments

  The 3 units of Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 race cars that participated in the recent Nurburgring 24 hours race managed to clinch the 11th, 15th, and 32nd place, not too bad for a vehicle that was […]

   

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  Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 Concept

  23 May 2008 / 18 comments

  Volkswagen has unveiled a “road-going” concept version of the race-prepared Volkswagen Scirocco entering in the Nurburging 24-hour race this weekend. The concept Scirocco is called the Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 Concept, and is powered by a […]

   

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  Volkswagen Scirocco to enter Nürburgring 24 Hours

  2 May 2008 / 15 comments

  Click to enlarge Volkswagen will enter a factory-developed racing version of the new Volkswagen Scirocco in the upcoming Nürburgring 24 Hours race to be held from May 24 to 25 2008. The racing-tuned Volkswagen Scirocco […]

   

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  VIDEO: Volkswagen Scirocco Design Interview

  30 April 2008 / 6 comments

  Volkswagen’s Head of Exterior Design Mark Lichte shares with us the design process in coming up with the new Volkswagen Scirocco coupe (more like a lower and wider 3-door hatch), which was first introduced to […]

   

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  Volkswagen Lavida – more details and photos

  30 April 2008 / 16 comments

  The Volkswagen Lavida is a Chinese market sedan developed entirely by Shanghai Volkswagen outside of Germany. The interior and exterior does not look very much Volkswagen at all, but the good news is you will […]

   

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  Volkswagen Lavida for the Chinese domestic market

  17 April 2008 / 25 comments

  The car above is the Volkswagen Lavida, a Chinese domestic market model that has been developed and set to be sold only in the China market as it was developed for domestic tastes. I’m not […]

   

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  Volkswagen updates Touareg 3.0 V6 TDI

  7 April 2008 / 9 comments

  Volkswagen has updated the 3.0 litre V6 TDI engine installed in the Volkswagen Touareg with a version that puts out more power, torque, and yet emits less CO2 pollution – 262g/km versus 278g/km. The new […]

   

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  Volkswagen Polo GTI launched in Malaysia

  3 April 2008 / 35 comments

  The Fiat Bravo GT has fresh new more higher powered competition now – Volkswagen Group Malaysia has launched the Volkswagen Polo GTI in Malaysia. While the above picture shows the 3-door version, we get the […]

   

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