Volkswagen is beefing up positions at its Chattanooga production facility to increase output from 31 to 35 cars per hour. The jobs will be integrated into the company’s current two-shift operation and filled by full-time Volkswagen employees. “We have had good success hiring local people who can work together as a team to build our [...]
Volkswagen has been working on a new global platform that will underpin a large variety of their models. And as a part of these efforts to streamline manufacturing and assembly to help cut production costs, reports are saying that the “people’s car” make will be expanding the Passat’s lineup. The new up and coming platform [...]
Volkswagen will be debuting the second ever Golf GTI Cabriolet at next month’s Geneva Motor Show for the UK, following up last year’s soft-top GTI debut in Austria. This will most likely be the last MkVI Golf variant, since the next generation is coming up in 2013. A full-spec GTI Cabriolet has skipped the last [...]
As of last months Detroit Auto Show, it seemed that Volkswagen’s Bluesport concept had been put to rest. To further solidify the speculation, Matthias Mueller of Porsche spoke about the model right after the auto show, saying that the brand would need a “new generation” of clientele to support the off-beat model, and that the [...]
The new Volkswagen Beetle is already getting much acclaim for its new 2.5L and Turbo models. At the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, Volkswagen will show a third model to the lineup with a fuel-efficient TDI Clean Diesel variant. The 2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI, the first Beetle TDI Clean Diesel model since 2006, is powered by [...]
Volkswagen has a well-overhauled seventh generation Golf GTI hitting the pavement sometime this year as a faster, lighter, more technologically advanced version of its former self. A special welding process allows the automaker to build shells with aluminum roofs and bolt-ons, cutting weight by over 220 pounds from the current model. The lighter weight will [...]
The pace for U.S. light vehicle sales rose by 11 percent last month and was set by a few major automakers including Chrysler Group, Volkswagen Group and Hyundai/Kia. All major automakers posted sales gains last month except General Motors, which fell 6 percent from a strong January 2011. The automaker sold a total of 167,962 [...]
Volkswagen today released its Super Bowl XLVI commercial on YouTube titled ‘The Dog Strikes Back.’ The commercial online is an extended 75-second, while the one that will air during the big game will be 60-seconds. This is the third consecutive year that V-dub has advertised on Super Bowl Sunday. “This is a perfect opportunity for [...]
Hippies can now rejoice – Volkswagen plans on offering a new version of its iconic Microbus to the United States. The move comes as the company plans on boosting sales to 1 million units in the market by 2018. “If that could come into the market at some point in the future, that would be [...]
Here is something we haven’t heard about in a while. Reports from Germany state that Volkswagen Group may complete its purchase of 50.1 percent share in Porsche Automobile Holding SE. If completed, Volkswagen will get around having to pay 1 billion euros in taxes if it completes the purchase before 2014. A report from a [...]
