VW News Articles

Wednesday 17 February 2010

The new Polo GTI has been unveiled, promising to be the fastest, most focussed and cleanest performance Polo yet produced. The original performance variant of the Polo was unveiled in 1986 in the form of the G40 Coupe – a car that mixed a fast-rev...

Thursday 11 February 2010

The all-new Touareg has been unveiled – a car which is up to 200 kg lighter and up to 20 per cent more fuel efficient than the model it replaces. It's sharper, cleaner and yet, in Hybrid form, able to out-accelerate many hot hatches while returning ...

Tuesday 2 February 2010

The Golf had already attained a five-star EuroNCAP rating in the year 2008. Initially, this testing programme − conducted since 1997 − only assessed frontal crashes, side crashes and pedestrian protection. After stricter criteria were int...

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Volkswagen has won the legendary Dakar Rally for the second time in succession. The Volkswagen duos and their TDI powered Race Touareg prototypes celebrated a one-two-three podium lockout at the finish of the toughest challenge in motorsport. In th...

Wednesday 16 December 2009

The fifth generation Passat, produced between 1996 and 2005, has been awarded the coveted title of Large Used Car of the Decade by the used car valuation specialists, CAP. The 'all-new' Passat, revealed to the public at the 1996 Paris Motor Show,...

Friday 13 November 2009

Volkswagen is boosting its popular Passat and Passat Estate range with the addition of a new model, the Highline Plus. Over the already generous equipment list of the Passat Highline, the trim level which replaced the SE in February 2008, the Highli...

Friday 31 October 2008

The most efficient, economical and environmentally friendly Passat yet produced, the new BlueMotion 2, opens for ordering this week.Building on the gains in efficiency made by the existing Passat BlueMotion, the new BlueMotion 2 features an automatic...

Friday 17 October 2008

Prices have been announced for the sixth generation Golf and customers can now place an order for the new model in a Volkswagen Retailer ahead of the cars arriving in the UK in January. Starting from £13,150 ‘on the road’ RRP for th...

Wednesday 6 August 2008

Five generations, 34 years and over 26 million vehicles after the original first went on sale, the sixth generation of the Golf has been unveiled.The new model continues the evolution of an icon. The new Golf is the safest, most technically advanced...