Cinema Sunday: Volkswagen Tiguan and PunchDub
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010From our friends at Volkswagen and YouTube, we offer you the continuing game of “PunchDub,” as played with the new Volkswagen Tiguan:
Volkswagen BlueMotion is World Green Car of the Year
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Autopia is excited, and so are we. Why? Because the World Car of the Year organization hase just made Volkswagen’s BlueMotion brand the 2010 World Green Car of the Year. The award was given by 59 jurors representing 25 countries around the world. The other two finalists for this year’s honor were the Honda Insight [...]
No More Hybrid Tax Credits – Plug-Ins Get Funded Instead
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Hybrid Cars reported earlier this month that Ford is about to become the third automaker to lose its federal tax incentives for gas-electric hybrid cars. Toyota’s tax credits for hybrids went away at the end of 2007, and Honda’s hybrid credits ended at the beginning of last year. Those tax credits were part of a [...]
Audi Planning Expansion of Hybrid Line, Pushing the E-tron.
Monday, March 15th, 2010Automotive News is reporting this morning that Audi is ramping up to greatly expand their hybrid and electric vehicle offerings over the next few years, as part of the Volkswagen Group’s plans to dominate that alternative-fuel market by the end of the decade. Audi’s board member in charge of technical development, Michael Dick, shared the [...]
VW Polo Coming to the U.S.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009The parade of new small cars on the American market just gets longer by the day. Now we have news that Volkswagen will be bringing the Polo (a step under the Rabbit) to the U.S. and they’re making no bones about why. In an article for Automotive News VW’s development chief Ulrich Hackenberg said, “The [...]