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Shanghai VW general manager dies during test drive
 The general manager of one of Volkswagen's joint ventures in China has been killed in a car accident. This happened at about 4 p.m. on Saturday during a business trip to Jiuquan City in northwest China's Gansu Province.Liu Jian died in a road accident on a provincial highway in Guazhou County, Jiuquan. Three other people died in the accident – Zeng Jialin, the JV's public relations director, the driver, and an after-sales manager.Media reports said that Shanghai VW was holding a meeting in Jiuquan for the Volkswagen brand dealers and general manager Liu Jian and other three people of the company went to attend the ...
Tags: volkswagen-general-manager, shangai-volkswagen, volkswagen, dies, test-drive
SEAT IBE Concept production
 At the Geneva Auto Show 2010 you'll see the electric coupe SEAT IBE concept, model reaching production like part of the scheme made by the government in Spain for encouraging local drivers to go towards more "green" transportation means. Autocar.co.uk cited SEAT insiders that said the Spanish carmaker is pondering now a few green units, the IBE concept included.SEAT will be introducing also (besides this concept) a hybrid petrol-electric model that's based on the VW Golf platform, with a few changes of course. A hybrid SEAT Leon will be produced by 2014 too, probably.IBE concept is 1.80 meters wide, 3.78 meters long and 1.22 meters, ...
Tags: ibe-concept, seat-ibe, production, seat, concept, volkswagen-golf, golf, geneva
The Golf sport has a new name - ABT Golf R
 When ABT Sportsline deals with the VW Golf, the result is traditionally a compact super sports car. This is because the world`s largest tuner of vehicles from the Volkswagen group has given all generations of the successful Wolfsburg car an optical and technical boost. The current super Golf answers to the letter R, which announces the most important characteristics of the car: the "R" stands for "racing" - it transports the experience of ABT, which has recently defended its DTM title and won the ADAC GT Masters. Instead of the series-standard 270HP (199 kW) the engine now offers a dynamic 310HP (228 kW). With a ...
Tags: golf, abt-r, abt, abt-golf-r,golf-r, abt-sport, 310ps, 310hp, volkswagen
Volkswagen is cutting dividend after their profits fell down 71 percent
 When everybody cuts jobs and closes plants, VW bought 50 % of Porsche AG; it announced its 3-year investment 25.8bn EUR plan, creating a dominant, strong image in the car industry.Volkswagen AG revealed just now it has suffered a drop of 71 % in operating last year's profits, exceeding the initial fears of the firm. On Friday, the share price of the brand dropped due to its profitability disappointment this year on the 4th quarter, reported autonews.com.The group of course said it will recover, keeping very close its purpose of overtaking Toyota in the long term, but for now Volkswagen said it would be cutting ...
Tags: profit-drop, financial results, dividend-cut, volkswagen, vw, vw-group
In June China-made VW Passat CC is going Live
 To move the full production or just a half or a quarter of a specific unit production to the Chinese territory seems to be a great choice for the current manufactures, as this country is 1 of the few which grew during these hard times. Volkswagen knows well that, so it began making a few cars in China, - Passat CC including that will be on sale this year in June in China.China Car Times issued a report saying the vehicle will be locally marketed as CC, this because VW is selling a few Passat variants in the country already.The auto will employ a ...
Tags: passat, passat-cc, china, vw, volkswagen
New Volkswagen Polo GTI launched
 Looks like the Volkswagen Polo was a good boy in the last couple of years, not causing any major problems, so the German automaker decided to reward it with a sportier version which will make its debut soon. More precisely, the Volkswagen Polo GTI will make its world debut in about a week at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Styling features include a slightly revised instrument panel with red dials, tartan cloth sport seats as well as a similar flat bottom steering wheel with red stitching for the interior and a pair of chrome tipped exhausts housed on a new rear bumper, the typical GTI ...
Tags: polo-gti, polo, launched, new, volkswagen, hot-hatch, hatchback, geneva
Large photo gallery of Volkswagen Touareg at Munich event
 Two days after the official launch of the new Volkswagen Touareg, the German company felt it was necessary to organize a special event in Munich, Germany to celebrate the world premiere of the new generation SUV. The event was quite grandiose as over 600 guests and celebrities from politics, industry, radio and television participated at the presentation. The new Volkswagen Touareg was officially revealed to the participating guests during this event although the official world debut will take place at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show in about two weeks. The funny thing was how the organizers tried to make event be a lot like ...
Tags: touareg, munich, event, photo, gallery, presentation, germany, volkswagen
ABT will presents Audi A8, Golf R and Audi R8 GTR at Geneva
 An automobile masterpiece - ABT Sportsline is showing the highlights of 2010 in GenevaFor the car industry spring traditionally starts with the Geneva Motor Show. This is because nowhere sets the stage for extravagant vehicles better than in the halls near Lake Geneva. The public here is particularly interested, and the ambience exudes pure flair. For this reason ABT Sportsline will be showing off its most important creations of 2010 in Switzerland - thereby heralding in the new model year. "I can say with pride that it is worth a visit, as we have put together extraordinary, innovative and classy cars," states Hans-Jürgen Abt, the ...
Tags: abt, gti, ro, a8, tuning, abt-gti, golf-gti, audi-a8, tuning, geneva
Skoda will start the production of Yeti in Ukraine
 VW Group, that makes now in Czech Republic, Skoda Yeti, will begin the crossover SUV production at the end of this month in Ukraine. Eurocar is in charge now of VW Group's Ukraine operation and will be handling the production in that state, reported insideline.com citing a statement of the firm. Yeti will cost about 25,000 Dollars in Ukraine, rivaling against Kia Sportage, Suzuki Grand Vitara and Nissan Qashqai.You can find the car in Europe offered with a 5 engines choice, 3 diesel and 2 gasoline, making 103 - 167 horsepower. Its TSI 1.2-liter having front-wheel drive makes it the smallest unit in the lineup, ...
Tags: yeti, czech-republic, ukraine, skoda, production
Volkswagen Touran gets more power from MR Car Design
 The German tuning company MR Car Design decided to start a bolder project, which would require a lot of guts. Thus, they decided to modify a Volkswagen Touran . MR Car Design decided to give the Volkswagen Touran a complete stage 1 treatment, modifying both the exterior design and the power of the engine. For this project, MR Car Design used a Volkswagen Touran equipped with a 2.0 TDI diesel engine. The styling modifications include the white racing stripes and a new set of 19 inch alloy wheels by RC Design in a white finish with Vredestein tires of sizes ...
Tags: touran, mr-cardesign, mr, design, power, tdi, volkswagen
- october 2002
Volkswagen Caddy Combi Maxi
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 170 km/h- october 2005
Volkswagen Caddy Combi
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 196 km/h- october 2004
Volkswagen Eos
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 160 km/h- october 2002
Volkswagen Fox
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 170 km/h- october 2003
Volkswagen Golf
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 178 km/h- april 2007
Volkswagen Golf Variant
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 168 km/h- may 2007
Volkswagen CrossGolf
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 185 km/h- may 2007
Volkswagen Golf Plus
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 185 km/h- november 2006
Volkswagen Jetta
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 180 km/h- april 2006
Volkswagen Multivan
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 166 km/h- april 2006
Volkswagen New Beetle
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 193 km/h- july 2007
Volkswagen New Beetle Cabrio
5-doors, stationwagon
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 185 km/h- july 2007
Volkswagen Passat
5-doors, stationwagon
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 182 km/h- november 2007
Volkswagen Passat Variant
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 225 km/h- september 2008
Volkswagen Passat CC
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 213 km/h- january 2009
Volkswagen Phaeton
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 208 km/h- january 2005
Volkswagen Polo
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 190 km/h- september 2007
Volkswagen CrossPolo
2-doors, coupé
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 329 km/h- july 2008
Volkswagen Scirocco
2-doors, coupé
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 300 km/h- august 2005
Volkswagen Sharan
2-doors, cabriolet
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 280 km/h- november 2005
Volkswagen Tiguan
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 157 km/h- april 2007
Volkswagen Touareg
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 183 km/h- september 2005
Volkswagen CrossTouran
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 186 km/h- october 2005
Volkswagen Touran
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 190 km/h- august 2004
Volkswagen Bora
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 165 km/h- january 1997
Volkswagen Bora Variant
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 176 km/h- march 1998
Volkswagen Corrado
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 174 km/h- may 1997
Volkswagen Derby
5-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 170 km/h- march 2004
Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 225 km/h- october 1982
Volkswagen Lupo
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 193 km/h- april 2000
Volkswagen Polo Coupe
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 188 km/h- november 2001
Volkswagen Polo Fun
2-doors, coupé
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 330 km/h- march 1982
Volkswagen Polo Sedan
3-doors, hatchback
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 155 km/h- february 1983
Volkswagen Polo Variant
2-doors, coupé
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 190 km/h- january 1995
Volkswagen Santana
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 185 km/h- august 1999
Volkswagen Vento
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 185 km/h
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