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 [...]
The 2012 North American Car and Truck of the year finalists have been revealed, at the Automotive Press Association luncheon in Detroit. After being voted on by a group of 50 full-time automotive journalists, finalists in each segment have been revealed. In order to be eligible for the award, North American vehicles must be new [...]
At the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show next week, Volkswagen will debut its new Passat Alltrack, which adds 4Motion four-wheel-drive allowing for more off-road capability. The new Volkswagen Passat Alltrack also gets visual enhancement that provide protection from scrapes when you’re traveling on some rough terrain. Other features include matte chrome roof rails, window surrounds, grille [...]
Sixty-two years in, Motor Trend’s Car of the Year Award is a prestigious and honorable one. This year, Motor Trend announced that its car of the year is the Volkswagen Passat live at a Volkswagen press conference at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The German brand’s American-made Passat topped 34 other new or completely [...]
Volkswagen is making more choices available to its European consumers for its Polo supermini and Passat models. Two R-Line styling packages have been released for the Polo. The R-Line Exterior package for the Polo Comfortline and Highline versions gives the front grille a black gloss finish, new front and rear bumpers, side skirts, a rear [...]
Looking forward to what the American automotive market has to offer in terms of redesigned models in 2012? Well, lucky for you, we’ve put together a list of all the redesigned models you’ll see on the roads in 2012. You may have seen 2 or 3 of these vehicles on the road already (BMW 6-Series, [...]
Volkswagen has delivered the first 2012 Passat in the United States to Matt Duchesne of San Jose, CA. Duchesne picked the 2012 Passat TDI has is choice. “Designed specifically for the North American market, the 2012 Passat is the only midsize sedan that offers German engineering at an accessible price,” Volkswagen said. “Duchesne’s 2012 Passat was built at the [...]
Volkswagen commercials have always known to be pretty witty. That’s definitely the case in the new commercial for the 2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI called – ‘Vamonos.’ The commercial shows two friends taking a road-trip and instead of listening to music – the driver pops in a ‘Teach Yourself Spanish’ CD. The two end up driving [...]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced today that the new Audi A6 and the new 2012 Volkswagen Passat have both earned its top safety accolade following good performance for roof strength in rollover crashes. The award recognizes vehicles that earn the top rating of good for front, side, rollover, and rear crash protection, and [...]
