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Volkswagen is the original brand with the Volkswagen Group that also contains Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Seat, Skoda and Scania. The brand traces its roots back to Ferdindand Porsche, founder of Porsche, who developed the original Volkswagen Beetle for the German government. The Beetle entered the North American market in 1949 and today the Volkswagen brand produces a full line of vehicles including many diesel-powered models.

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    Official: Volkswagen interns roll into Worthersee with GTI Black Dynamic show car     1337297280

    Slammed Skodas, SEATs, Audis and Polos are all well and nice, but at the end of the day, the annual gathering of Volkswagen performance enthusiasts at Lake Wörthersee in Austria is about the GTI. That much isn't lost on Volkswagen, so in addition to bringing the new GTI Cabrio along with all the aforementioned corporate cousins, the German automaker ...

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    Official: Skoda racing VW Up! with Citigo Rally concept     1337283060

    If you thought the Volkswagen Group was about to wind down the endless stream of concept cars based on the new Up! city car, think again. Because not only is the Volkswagen brand itself keeping the train a-moving, so are its sister brands. Skoda has its own version of the Up called the Citigo. But what racing fans know the Czech subsidiary for best is ...

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    Official: Volkswagen previews 220-hp Polo WRC Street special ahead of Wörthersee debut     1337279460

    The annual GTI festival at Lake Wörthersee in Austria has exploded over the years into a celebration of all things hot-hatch in the Volkswagen Group – including concept cars and new debuts from Audi, Seat and Skoda – but the event has always been about VWs at heart. And the brand central to the empire isn't about to sit it out. At the ...

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    Report: Volkswagen to offer Fender edition Beetle     1336917600

    Volkswagen worked with Fender, its stereo partner, to put together the concept Beetle shown at last year's Frankfurt Motor Show. The concept had an iPod dock set into amp-like mesh, a tube amp, sunburst-patterned wood trim and a trunk-mounted sub you could plug your guitar into. Car and Driver reports that a production version is coming, perhaps before ...

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    Review: 2012 Volkswagen Golf R [w/video]     1336752000

    Boiled Down, But Still Delectable It is nearly impossible to avoid reminiscing about the 1983 Volkswagen GTI while driving the 2012 Volkswagen Golf R. As you may recall, "the original hot hatch" arrived on our shores seemingly eons ago with a naturally aspirated 1.8-litre four spitting out just 90 horsepower. While hardly brawny, even in an era of wheezy ...

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    Report: Toyota takes title of World's Largest Automaker... again, for now     1336744800

    Now that the title of world's largest maker has become a clear and eager battle, we can expect more regular updates on the progress of the combatants. Bloomberg reports that Toyota snagged the #1 crown in Q1, taking it away from General Motors with 2.49 million units sold across its five brands compared to 2.28 million for GM. Volkswagen was just another ...

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    Featured: The Automatic transmission: A brief history     1336687200

    The manual transmission is not long for this world, much to the consternation of the "driving aficionado." As evidence, consider that the take rate for manual transmissions for all Lamborghini models - among the most extreme super-sports cars on the planet, mind you - is a measly 1 to 2 per cent. For the mathematically challenged, this means that 98 to ...

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    Study: "Camaros eat Mustangs:" The origins of car names     1336584600

    As a car manufacturer, you have spent literally thousands of person-hours engineering a vehicle that is not quite entirely dreamy nor utterly practical, but some magical balance of the two that should sell by the trainload. Small problem: the folks in marketing have decided to name the car the "Acquiesce," so chosen for its inability to offend anybody and ...

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    Official: Volkswagen Passat TDI travels 2,616 kilometers on one tank of diesel     1336577460

    Watch out, Wayne Gerdes, there's a new hypermiling crew in town. John and Helen Taylor – Volkswagen calls them "mileage experts" and "the world's most fuel-efficient couple" – recently drove a stock 2012 Passat TDI SE all the way from Houston, Texas to Sterling, Virginia without refueling. That's 2,616 kilometers (1,626 miles) from just 73 ...

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    Video: Volkswagen's People's Car Project in China has produced three concepts [w/video]     1336568400

    In 2011, Volkswagen commenced its People's Car Project in China to create crowdsourced concepts of the VW of the future. More than 33 million people visited the site, and three concepts were created from the inputs: the Music Car, the Hover Car and the Smart Key. The Music Car is a Beetle wrapped in LEDs that change colours to match the driver's choice ...