VW Jetta

Looks like Volkswagen could be in hot water after a heated seat became burning hot and terrified a Volkswagen Jetta owner in BC. It seems the front seat got more than a little too toasty, as it actually smelled like smoke and burned a frightening hole in the driver's seat. This shocking incident caused the surprised woman and her toddler to pull over ...

Wagons ho! These three images of the upcoming Volkswagen Golf Wagon have leaked online ahead of the car's official debut, which may very well be at the Geneva Motor Show. Looking over the photos doesn't really bring any surprises – after all, this is a VW Golf with a wagon rear end grafted on, or basically what we expect the next Jetta SportWagen ...

More Fun Than A Prius, Less Sensible Than A TDI Let's have some fun, and do some math. We're talking pretty rudimentary stuff, multiplication and division, to figure out if the upcoming Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid can make a baseline case for itself against two very strong competitors in this segment. The competitors in question, at least for now, are two ...

Crash tests continue to get ever tougher, and the new "small overlap" test from the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety is giving engineers fits. The new procedure, launched in August, subjects just 25 per cent of a vehicle's front end to an impact at (65 kilometres per hour (40 miles per hour), and it's proven to be a lot tougher to ace than the ...

Volkswagen is currently testing the next-generation Jetta SportWagen in Europe, and our spy photographers managed to grab a few shots of the long-roof in action. From the looks of things, the new model will be considerably larger than the current generation, pushing ever closer to the girth of the European Passat. Technically, the SportWagen will continue ...

Behold the fastest production hybrid in the world! For the second time this year, the Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid LSR has moved the terminal-veolcity bar higher by averaging 186.313 mph (that's 299.841 km/h) at Bonneville. That breaks the SCTA's land speed record for production cars with forced induction engines of less than 1.5 litres. On Oct. 5, Motor ...

The 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid will hit dealers near the end of 2012, and here are the details. For that price, buyers will be treated to a vehicle packed with a 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine mated to a 27-horsepower electric motor. Total system output is rated at 170 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque, and the only transmission on ...

Volkswagen isn't afraid to do ads that are a little different... or even a lot different; this is no secret, nor is it new. An ad in various national papers in India, though, including the Times of India, might have gone a black box too far in search of a buzz-worthy response. First, some context: two years ago VW ran a national, full-page ad in India for ...

"My dog ate my homework." That excuse might not have worked in grade school, and as Volkswagen proves in its latest ad for the Jetta sedan, telling your boss "my dog ate my keys" is no excuse for being late to work, either. In this clever new 30-second commercial, a frantic VW Jetta owner struggles to find his keys before realizing that man's best friend ...

What's that? Rich people buy their cars at dealerships just like we do?! Yep, and according to a new study from TrueCar, Mr. and Mrs. Moneybags don't spend their loot on as many high-end luxury models as you'd think. TrueCar released a list of the top 10 most popular cars in the wealthiest North American neighbourhoods and, shockingly enough, half the ...