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  Volkswagen Passat B8 at Pekan plant on Instagram

  15 July 2015 / 27 comments

  Sometimes you’ll find little gems on Instagram depending on what hashtag you look for. In this case, we found a photo that appears to be at DRB-HICOM’s Pekan plant where Volkswagens are locally assembled. The […]

   

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  Volkswagen China cannot meet sales target this year – might have to subsidise dealers instead

  10 July 2015 / 13 comments

  It now appears unlikely that Volkswagen will achieve its sales targets in China by year’s end. Sales figures for the first half of the year have not been particularly rosy, prompting Volkswagen AG to pump […]

   

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  Volkswagen Golf race car concept debuts with 330 hp

  10 July 2015 / 15 comments

  It looks absolutely mean, and yet totally breathtaking. This is the Volkswagen Golf race car concept – part of VW Motorsport’s “evaluation of a potential customer racing programme.” An aggressive front splitter and larger air […]

   

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  Volkswagen confirms new SUVs – including HR-V rival

  8 July 2015 / 6 comments

  Speaking to CarAdvice, Volkswagen Australia confirmed that the German company will soon roll out a new SUV model to rival the likes of the Honda HR-V and Mazda CX-3. It will sit below the new-generation […]

   

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  Volkswagen Malaysia opens new Shah Alam parts hub

  7 July 2015 / 23 comments

  Volkswagen Group Malaysia has announced the next step towards enhancing its after-sales service in the country with the establishment of a new parts hub in Shah Alam. The installation serves as an extension of Volkswagen‘s […]

   

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  Giorgetto Giugiaro rides into the sunset and signs off

  6 July 2015 / 1 comment

  It must be noted with some sadness that Giorgetto Giugiaro has resigned from Italdesign Giugiaro SpA, the styling and engineering company he founded in 1968. He will be best remembered as one of the driving […]

   

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  Volkswagen to build sub-4 m budget sedan in India?

  30 June 2015 / 5 comments

  Polo Sedan not small enough for you? Volkswagen appears to be coming up with just the thing – if a Reuters report is to be believed – with a well-equipped A-segment sedan slated for launch […]

   

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  SPYSHOTS: Volkswagen Passat B8 sighted in Kerteh

  30 June 2015 / 38 comments

  We now know that we’ll be seeing the new generation Volkswagen Passat B8 launched in Malaysia sometime in Q1 next year, but this is the first time other than the Das Auto event last year […]

   

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  New VW budget brand in 2018, confirms Winterkorn

  29 June 2015 / 23 comments

  The Volkswagen Group’s new budget brand, which is no new topic of course, has been finally confirmed, and by none other than chairman Martin Winterkorn himself. Winterkorn, who recently survived Ferdinand Piech’s attempt to oust […]

   

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  Volkswagen Passat B8 to arrive in Malaysia in Q1 2016

  25 June 2015 / 142 comments

  Remember the sleek Volkswagen Passat B8 that was paraded around at the brand’s Das Event last year? For those who have been wondering when the eight-generation D-segment competitor will make its official Malaysian debut, Volkswagen […]

   

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  Hyundai to hire ex-VW designer Donckerwolke – report

  19 June 2015 / 15 comments

  Volkswagen Group veteran Luc Donckerwolke is set to be hired to replace Peter Schreyer as Hyundai and Kia design head when Schreyer retires in two years, motoring.com.au reports. While the Korean carmaker declined to comment, […]

   

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  Mercedes, Toyota, Isuzu, VW – B10 biodiesel no go

  18 June 2015 / 35 comments

  Following BMW Malaysia announcing it found “technical challenges” running its diesel engines on B10 biodiesel (10% palm-based biodiesel/90% petroleum diesel blend, will reportedly be implemented nationwide by October), and that its engines can take up […]

   

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  B8 Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion revealed – 32.4 km/l

  16 June 2015 / 19 comments

  The B8-generation Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has been revealed for the UK market. Models designated with the BlueMotion tag represent the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid Volkswagen vehicles. As expected then, the same story is repeated here on […]

   

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  VW to split brands into 4 holding companies – report

  16 June 2015 / 8 comments

  As Automotive News Europe understands, the Volkswagen Group is planning a major restructuring of its corporate layout to feature a decentralised system with four holding companies managing the group’s 12 brands. Although VW has yet […]

   

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  SPYSHOTS: 2016 Volkswagen Tiguan dons new body

  12 June 2015 / 5 comments

  The 2016 Volkswagen Tiguan has finally been captured with its new body – prior to this, spyshots have only pictured the car wearing the outgoing Tiguan‘s clothes. So while the test mule captured by our […]

   

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