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Earlier this week, Volkswagen released a statement saying that it plans to complete its merger with Porsche during the course of 2011.
According to Michael Macht of Porsche, the sports car maker is prepared to share the Panamera and 911 platforms with other Volkswagen Group brands.
“Porsche needs to become a strong pillar of VW, as well [...]

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An Autopia reader spotted this accident involving a Tesla Roadster, Volkswagen Touareg and the Toyota Prius. The accident took place earlier this week and as the story goes the Tesla was stopped behind the Touareg at a red light when a Prius rear-ended it and pushed it under the SUV.
According Tesla’s spokeswoman Rachel Konrad:
This was [...]

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Volkswagen is going to be launching their new 2010 Volkswagen GTI exclusively via their iPhone app. The move, an industry first, offers immense bang-for-the-advertising-buck according to the article. the annual budget for mobil services runs $500,000. Compare that to the $60 million media blitz that VW ran with the release of their [...]

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Volkswagen AG announced today that it will take a 49.9 percent stake in Porsche AG in a first step towards a merger with the Stuttgart sports car manufacturer.
“This was agreed between Volkswagen and Porsche SE during negotiations on the contracts of implementation relating to the merger of the two companies,” Volkswagen said in a statement. [...]

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According to Stefan Jacoby, Volkswagen Group of America CEO, the automaker will most likely drop the Passat sedan and wagon in 2011 when its new U.S. built mid-size sedan goes on sale.
“We are looking at it in detail,” Jacoby said at a press event earlier this month.
The U.S. built mid-size four-door car will be larger [...]

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Speaking at a recent press event in Germany, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, Stefan Jacoby, said that the new Beetle will arrive in 2012. He said that the next-generation model will have more space in the back seat and will offer better packaging.
Jacoby said that the next Beetle will also be “more [...]

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During a media event in Wolfsburg, Germany today, Volkswagen confirmed that it will sell a version of the Golf R in the United States. The Golf R, which will be known as the GTI-R in the U.S., will replace the R32.
Along with Volkswagen’s 4Motion all-wheel-drive system, the GTI-R will get 2.0L TSI 4-cylinder engine making [...]

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Volkswagen’s CEO Martin Winterkorn planned to have the Volkswagen Up! on the roads by spring of 2011. However, rivalries between the brands in the Volkswagen Group are delaying the launch of the mini car by a couple of months.
According to a report by Automobilwoche, who spoke with Volkswagen’s production chief Jochem Heizmann, production of the Up! [...]

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Green Car Journal announced today that it has picked five finalists for the 2010 Green Car of the Year. The winner will be announced during a press conference at the 2009 LA Auto Show on Dec. 3.
2010 Green Car of the Year Finalists:

Audi A3 TDI
Honda Insight
Mercury Milan Hybrid (no idea why it’s not the Ford [...]

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Speaking to a German magazine, Wolfgang Duerheimer, head of development at Porsche, said that creating a model “significantly cheaper than the Boxster” is the company’s top priority. Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn has already said that he wants to make a model that is smaller than the Boxster.
According to reports, Porsche is working on producing its [...]

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