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Ben Oliver,
12 August 2012 10:00
I don’t know why I thought this was a good idea. I’m standing on a tonne of timber piled, unsecured, into the back of a Volkswagen Amarok with the tailgate down, and I’m clinging to its fat chrome roll bar because beneath me the truck is bellowing and bucking over soft sand and thick clumps of brush as it climbs ...
2.5
Greg Fountain,
27 April 2012 07:00
Nothing against China but it seems to me its influence over the car industry is becoming problematic. The world’s great car makers allowing Chinese tastes to dictate the conception and production of their cars is rather like the world’s great restaurants developing menus entirely to please Americans, merely because there happen to be a lot of them. The fact that ...
3.5
Gavin Green,
03 April 2012 09:00
This is the tale of two Volkswagens. One risible. One righteous. The new VW Up is a brilliant little car. From its tough yet well-textured cabin, to its composed ride quality, to its tuneful three-cylinder engine, to its outstanding space efficiency, this is one of the finest small cars I’ve driven. Unlike the brilliant Audi A2 – the Volkswagen Group’s ...
3.5
Jesse Crosse,
23 February 2012 10:12
Is VW’s recently announced MQB (Modular Transverse Matrix) a new idea or old hat? Starting with the new VW Golf Mk7 arriving in the UK in spring 2012, the idea heralds a return to basic principles of mass production in an industry where over the last 100 years, complexity has spiralled out of control. By creating a standardised, interchangeable set ...
Ever wondered how to spruce up an old car? Vehicles have a nasty habit of ageing badly, scratches, rust and scrapes multiplying like spots on a teenager. We know - because Andy Franklin's old 2001 Golf 1.9 TDI has racked up 140,000 miles and as many stubborn stains. This car has lain dormant for two years, yet sailed through its MOT with ...
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Tim Pollard (photography by Radovan Varicak),
12 September 2011 21:51
The Volkswagen preview night ushered in the world premieres of no fewer than eight new models. If you were in any doubt of the scale of VW's ambition, tonight was a prety chunky statement of intent. The home teams take Frankfurt very seriously indeed. VW invited 2352 of the world's media from 43 different countries, shipped them out to an ...
4
Georg Kacher,
17 August 2011 09:00
In the new September issue of CAR Magazine our European editor Georg Kacher has been behind the wheel of both the gorgeous VW Bulli concept and the New Beetle Mk2 - back-to-back with their original, iconic predecessors. We couldn't squeeze in everything Georg wanted to say about the original Beetle and Bulli in the latest issue, so here's the extra content... ...
3.5
Ben Barry,
05 August 2011 10:00
When my first child was all set for the big push back in August 2008, the due-date happily coincided with a long-term loan of a Volkswagen California – we had one in the office for months, so I knew it would definitely overlap with the birth. This was great news. For anyone who doesn’t know, the California shares its basics ...
Not the sort of scenery you usually get when driving your 59-plate Golf TDI... Chris Chilton's Bluemotion Golf was shipped from the UK especially for CAR Magazine's feature in the new March 2011 issue - where we crossed America to hunt down an audience with outgoing California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. A sight VW hopes will become more common in America: ...
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Tim Pollard,
22 January 2010 09:43
Volkswagen has suffered some slings and arrows over the past decade. As an ambitious board quietly built up a bulging portfolio of brands through the Nineties and Noughties, some of us scoffed at the wilder empire building. Acquiring Skoda hardly seemed a smart move when the Czechs were the running joke of Europe. Seat always seemed like a vanity project. ...
