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Sales: Volkswagen Passenger Cars Delivers Five Million Vehicles as of November

Brand Board of Management Member Jürgen Stackmann: “The effects of the tense situation on world markets continue. Customers are remaining loyal to Volkswagen during a challenging phase.” The...

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NOx Issue: Volkswagen Informing Customers, Starting Implementation in Europe

Measures for the affected EA189 series 1.2-litre, 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre diesel engines have been ratified by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) Customers are being informed about the next...

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Video: Boba Motoring’s 1233hp Mk2 Runs 60-120 in Three Seconds

Our favorite unhinged Germans are back with a new video, showing off a few new tweaks made to their insanely powerful all-wheel-drive Mk2.  I’m not really even sure what to say at this point.  Just...

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WRC: Volkswagen Completes Tests Ahead of Opening Round in Monte Carlo

Ogier/Ingrassia, Latvala/Anttila and Mikkelsen/Jæger ready for the 2016 season Just short of 1000 kilometres of testing with the proven Volkswagen Polo R WRC 2016 WRC season kicks off with the Rally...

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Video: Beetle-Bodied Dune Buggy Assaults San Diego

Full disclosure- Just about everything you are about to see is illegal, and we don’t condone it.  However, if it turns out that some of the locations used in this film were closed for filming (we’d be...

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The Baja Bug: 50 Years of Off-Road Racing

[See image gallery at www.vwvortex.com] Synecdoche is the figure of speech in which a part comes to mean the whole. In product design, it means that you’ve created something so good that everybody...

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How Canada Might Give You More Color Options on the Golf R

If you ever find yourself at Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant, you may be surprised to find Golf Rs in nearly every conceivable color. Fortunately, though, you don’t need to book a flight to Europe to see...

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Yellowstone in a Base Tiguan: The Glory of Less

When you really think about it, Yellowstone National Park is just a fence. And yet, without frills or luxuries, it still manages to inspire poetry and attract people from around the world. So often...

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Loved Bugs

The Beetle’s days may (or may not) be numbered. As part of our Beetle Week, I reached out to a few VWVortex Beetle owners to find out what the car means to them. I’ve included my own story at the...

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Gallery: How to Design a VW Tanoak

When it showed up at the New York Auto Show, people went nuts for the Tanoak. Our own Facebook posts about the pickup were so popular that we got as many likes that week as we get in some months. And...

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