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Volkswagen optimistic after hearty profits

Volkswagen (VW), Europe’s biggest car maker, expressed optimism last week about prospects in its current business year after earnings rose sharply last year on cost-cutting and…

Volkswagen launches powerful new Passat

Volkswagen is launching the most powerful Passat built to date, featuring a 220 kW/300 hp motor and the special ”deep blue pearl effect” colour. The Passat R36, presented at the…

The original hot hatchback celebrates 30 years

A boxy little car with 110 horsepower under the bonnet and a badge with the suffix GTI — viewed with hindsight, it doesn’t sound very special. Thirty years ago, this combination…

Drive your Volkswagen with Google Earth

Car maker Volkswagen (VW) and internet giant Google are developing an in-car navigation system that gives directions using Google Earth images, Volkswagen said on Monday. The…

Volkswagen to wield jobs axe

Volkswagen (VW), Europe’s biggest carmaker, gave a warning recently to its 100Â 000 German employees that they would have to accept thousands of job losses and several plant…

Volkswagen chooses Wolfsburg for new SUV plant

Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car maker, said on Tuesday that its new compact sports utility vehicle, the Golf Marrakesh, would be built at its plant in Wolfsburg, north Germany.…

Volkswagen preparing to cut thousands of jobs

Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car maker, said on Monday that it planned to step up job-cutting measures, particularly at its main plant in Wolfsburg, north Germany. "Despite…

Volkswagen sets hope on new Golf

Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car maker, is hoping the new fifth version of its best-selling Golf model, unveiled on Monday, will steer the group back into the fast lane of the…

VW launches its ‘stealth-wealth’ land yacht

Volkswagen may mean People’s Car in German, but the masses will not be driving the company’s new luxury model, Phaeton, which costs 98 000 euros ( 000).