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Skoda Cars – Class Of Its Own

Skoda silently made its mark in the automobile industry. From its humble beginnings in the 1890s, producing "motorcyclettes," the automobile company has become a respectable carmaker of today. It was in 1905 when Skoda first ventured into manufacturing ca... Read >
Author: darrell.j.freeman@gmail.com

Car Leasing Special: 2011 Porsche Cayenne: A Second Look

The new 2011 Porsche Cayenne has enchanted photographers and car enthusiasts as it shredded off its tight SUV makeup and put on a new wagonlike appearance with a lower, to-the-ground body. There are some highlighted features for the car: not so upright w... Read >
Author: Daniel Lamb

Bugatti Vayron – Fastest Car

The Bugatti Veyron is a car built around an engine. Essentially, Bugatti made the decision to blow the doors off the supercar world by creating a 1,000-horsepower engine. Everything else follows from that resolution. The exotic two-passenger Bugatti Ve... Read >
Author: peterhutch

Dennis Ritter-Eichenlaub: The Voice of a Powerful Car

More than a thousand employees from Volkswagen's German plants excitedly anticipated the concluding event of their Scirocco Song Contest. The winner will be the newest voice to be heard in the hottest Sirocco TV commercial. According to reports, the com... Read >
Author: Anthony Fontanelle

Volkswagen Hybrid For 2010

Union has been reached on a co-operation which sees Volkswagen joining forces with Sanyo, one of the world's leading developers of rechargeable batteries, to work on new and extremely efficient high-performance storage systems based on lithium-ion techn... Read >
Author: Anthony Fontanelle

VW Group To Host Job Fair

This coming March 6th, the Volkswagen Group of America would be hosting a job fair which would be happening at the Westin Tysons Corner in Washington, DC. Starting at twelve noon up until nine in the evening, anybody who is interested in finding jobs wo... Read >
Author: Anthony Fontanelle

VW Inks Record Sales Of 6.2M Units In 2007

Europe's largest automaker Volkswagen AG inked sales record of 6.2 million vehicles last year thanks to the strong demand in Brazil, China and eastern Europe. The German automaker said last Monday that the sales figure represents an increase of eight... Read >
Author: Anthony Fontanelle

Volkswagen Obtained All-Time Record Sales for 1st Half of 2007

Europe's largest automaker and producer of high quality VW Bug parts has been able to deliver around 1.8 million vehicles in the first half of this year to customers around the globe. It's 7.4 percent more than the same period last year. Volkswagen's Mi... Read >
Author: Rain Stockton

VW Records 1.8 Million Vehicles in First Half of 2007

German automaker Volkswagen delivered 1.8 million vehicles from January to June of this year to customers around the world. Such figure is a 7.4 percent more than in the same period last year. The Middle East market experienced a sales increase of a pau... Read >
Author: Rain Stockton

VW profit, sales energizes future plans

The AIADA newsletter reported that Volkswagen's positive first-quarter results were exactly what Porsche Chief Executive Wendelin Wiedeking had in mind when he took a controlling stake in the German automaker last year. Meanwhile, VW of America, Inc. re... Read >
Author: benjamin

VW 2008 profit to hit US$6.92 billion, automaker to hit India, Russia

Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn told the VW shareholders that Volkswagen AG is set to post a pretax profit of at least 5.1 billion euros that is US$6.92 billion in 2008 because of its higher sales of its cars in Asia and Europe, and the United States ... Read >
Author: benjamin

Auto Shanghai 2007 ends successfully – WEGSIE

The World Expo Group Shanghai International Exhibition (WEGSIE) Co. Ltd. announced that Auto Shanghai 2007, revolving on the theme "Technology and Nature in Harmony", ended with great success last April 28. Auto Shanghai 2007 attracted over 1300 exhibit... Read >
Author: benjamin

Volkswagen Brief History

When people talk about Volkswagen, the first thing that usually pops up in their mind is the ever-popular Type 1 or Beetle model. The German-based car manufacturing company first entered the scene during the late 1930's when Adolf Hitler asked Ferdinand P... Read >
Author: HBoss

2007 World Green Car Award Finalist: The VW Polo BlueMotion

The Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion sold in the European market was named as one of the finalists for the 2007 World Green Car of the Year. More than 40 automotive journalists from all over the world selected the top three finalists for this year's award. Th... Read >
Author: benjamin

Volkswagen Jetta Now Comes with a Sporty Wagon Model

In a recent official press release of Volkswagen Group, the Wolfsburg-based automaker said that Volkswagen of America has already delivered about 50,332 individual units to customers in the United States starting from January up to March 2007. The sales... Read >
Author: benjamin

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