Car and Driver has released its annual 10Best Cars list for 2011, with the list featuring some familiar faces and some new ones. The list features some high-horsepower vehicles such as the 556-hp Cadillac CTS-V and for the first time ever, electrically powered vehicles with the Chevrolet Volt. “Our 10Best award celebrates the best cars [...]
The Volkswagen Golf has always been one of the automotive world”s most customized cars; everyone from amateurs working out of their garages to design teams have taken their crack at making the vehicle a car to race. Indeed, VW itself sported up the Golf by releasing the Golf R at the Frankfurt Auto show, and [...]
Earlier this month it was reported that Volkswagen”s new R GmbH department is working on an R version of the new Polo. However, latest reports say that plans for the Volkswagen Polo R have been shelved to protect the upcoming Audi S1. Speaking at the launch of the new Polo GTI, Volkswagen’s technical chief, Dr. Ernst [...]
Every year at the GTI-meet at Wörthersee, Volkswagen surprises fans with a breathtaking concept. In 2007, it was the GTI W12-650, in 2008 the Golf Estate RaVe 270 and in 2009 the Golf GTI Wörthersee 09. For 2010, Volkswagen is presenting the new Golf GTI Excessive in Reifnitz. The Golf GTI Excessive Concept adds on [...]
Volkswagen says that the Golf GTI is an icon and we definitely agree since it’s our favorite hot-hatch and has sold over 1.7 million units since its debut in 1976. As announced earlier in the month, Volkswagen is launching two special-edition versions of the GTI at Tour 2010. The Golf GTI adidas gets wider tracks, [...]
While Audi will be showing different versions of the A1 at the Worthersee Tour 2010, Volkswagen will display a hardcore version of the Volkswagen GTI. Known as the Volkswagen Golf GTI Adidas, the special-edition hatchback gets wider tracks, upgraded brake discs and pads, a lightweight exhaust system and revised springs and dampers. It also gets [...]
This past September, we were fortunate enough to spend a week with the 2010 Mazda3 and were very pleased to say the least. The Japanese carmaker”s compact offering is practical, fuel-efficient, modestly priced, and drives much better than most of its competition. With this in mind, it was with great excitement that we got behind [...]
As 2009 winds down and 2010 rears its head around the corner, we thought it appropriate to reminisce about our favorite drives of ’09. Of course it only makes sense to compare apples to apples, so we picked our favorite test-car in each of seven categories. The consensus of our staff is below – click [...]
Don’t you just hate it when you purchase a new model year of a vehicle and a couple months down the road the automaker decides to release some minor design change that causes you to lose sleep at night? It always makes us wonder who in their right mind is sitting at the design lab [...]
After test-driving the 2010 Volkswagen GTI for a week, we were left thinking that when it comes to hot hatchbacks – it doesn’t get better than this German little 3-door. But then there was a company by the name of Wimmer RS who decided to prove us wrong. Meet Wimmer RS and their performance upgrade [...]
