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    First Drive: 2015 Volkswagen GTI [w/video]     1366992000

    The 911 Of Hot Hatches Takes The Compact Game To New Levels North American car buyers get a bit of a slap in the face when it comes to delivery schedules for new the Volkswagen Golf and pumped-up GTI models. We'll just repeat the old chestnut: It's worth the wait... even though it still stinks. This time around, Western Europe is taking deliveries of the ...

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    Review: 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid     1360688220

    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 ...

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    Review: 2012 Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid [w/video]     1356541020

    Polished Utility Impresses, Just Not At The Pump With its subtle badging out of sight, and from a distance greater than 30 feet, Volkswagen's flagship Touareg Hybrid can hardly be differentiated from its entry-level Touareg V6 sibling. But pop the hood or take it for a quick spin, and the gasoline-electric utility quickly reveals itself as one of the ...

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    Quick Spin: 2013 Volkswagen Passat TDI     1355947140

    Can you name a fun-to-drive sedan with a manual transmission that can transport five adults and their luggage comfortably while sipping fuel at the rate of 50 mpg (4.7 L/100 km)? The answer is the Volkswagen Passat TDI – a German antonym for "range anxiety." The past forty years have seen the Volkswagen Passat evolve from a three-door hatchback ...

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    Review: 2012 Volkswagen Up!     1349711820

    The Best Little Car We Can't Have Despite the bigger car stereotype, North Americans are slowly but surely warming up to intelligent little city cars. What started with miniscule Smart ForTwo as the only car in this micro machine category has grown to include strong rivals like the Fiat 500, Scion iQ and more recently General Motors Chevrolet Spark. But ...

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    Review: 2012 Volkswagen Tiguan     1344873420

    Volkswagen Sharpens its CUV Game The Volkswagen Tiguan hasn't exactly enjoyed booming success in North America. In a land populated by a people distrustful of anything with less than a league of ground clearance under the belly pan, the high-riding CUV should have been right at home. But a preponderance of well-oiled competitors like the Honda CR-V, ...

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    Review: 2013 Volkswagen CC [w/video]     1342540620

    Has This Four-Door Coupe Lost Its Distinctiveness? When first introduced for the 2009 model year, the CC was breathlessly billed by Volkswagen as a "new offering designed and engineered to blend sports car dynamics and dimensions with sedan comfort in a sophisticated package." The company's first four-door coupe arrived with a dramatically swept ...

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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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    Review: 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI     1322845020

    The Jetta We've Been Waiting For The motoring press hasn't had the greatest of relationships with the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta. When the sedan debuted, critics slammed the newest generation as a Walmart interpretation of a model many of us had grown up loving. The nicer-than-expected materials, playful handling and quiet cabin had all been scrapped in ...

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    First Drive: 2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo     1310745420

    Getting Back To Being A Credible Car For The Times Volkswagen's choice of Berlin for the launch of its 2012 Beetle inevitably struck us as curious – and not just because of the horrible abundance of construction projects in the city that makes driving a relative concept at best. The last time a Beetle was unveiled to massive acclaim in Berlin was ...