2012 Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet drops its top for the drive to Geneva

Ladies and gentlemen, has returned to the Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet. One of the popular series made by the Golf Cabrio convertible ever from the VW range has been missing since the MkIV model was discontinued in 2003. Nevertheless, the youngest was just a convertible car with a touched-up MkIII front end, so that the last new Golf convertible was actually introduced in 1993. So this is a bit of a milestone.
What the Eos, you ask? A fine question. Probably closer to the Jetta in the first place the name, the Eos next to the Golf Cabriolet (not the New Beetle convertible, which is due, the production end of this year is mentioned before his replacement) continued. The Eos is longer than the Golf Cabrio, although the same wheelbase provides similar interior dimensions. The Eos has a retractable hardtop, while the new Golf convertible fabric roof is the route that both bases. The golf mechanism takes to drop just 9.5 seconds and can be operated up to 18 miles per hour at speeds. With the roof itself as cover, less trunk space is compromised.
A series of six turbocharged, direct injection gasoline and diesel engines will be offered worldwide, five of them with dual-clutch gearbox and three with BlueMotion technology.
There is no word on availability for us in the United States, but given the similarity with the Eos and the company's strategy vis-a-vis the Scirocco, it is quite possible this could remain beyond our reach as this. We have Cabriolet a closer look at the Gulf when it debuts next week at the Geneva Motor Show, but now you can watch the pictures in the gallery below and the details in the press release after the jump.

Video: Volkswagen Golf24 enduro racer hits the track

Volkswagen stunning new wide-body racing Golf was recently shown in the photographic mode, and now we finally have a few sounds and moving images of Golf24 endurance race thanks to a new VWvideo.

The man was racing on a track leads some shakedown runs filmed before it addresses the 24 Hour race. This is not just a few STEPS-up golf fitted with a roll cage: Under the hood sits a turbocharged 2.5-liter five-cylinder in-line production of 434 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque. The go-fast energy is channeled through a six-speed sequential gearbox and sent to all four wheels. Click past the jump in Volkswagen to see Golf24 in action.

Report: No Volkswagen Polo R for you!

If you thought that adaptation of the Audi A1 platform for all-wheel-drive would be the door for an AWD version of the Volkswagen Polo and open, think again. Although the A1 and the Polo a common platform, is the recent reports that Volkswagen has no plans to apply the technology for four-wheel-drive version of the Cross Polo or a hot Polo R.

This platform was never intended to accommodate all-wheel drive, Audi but he saw it fit to optimize things, to accommodate a Quattro version of the A1. The potential was speculation on how this could be for Volkswagen use are adapted aroused, but according to the reports, VW Polo, feels that an R - with AWD or not - would amount to the already limited space between the above graduated Polo GTI and the Golf GTI . Meanwhile, says the car manufacturers that the soft-road CrossPolo is already popular enough to make front-wheel-drive, and Audi already the foundation, the additional costs of adapting the high-riding polo all-wheel drive would not be worth the return.

Report: NHTSA investigation into 100,000 VW and Audi diesels intensifies

According to The Detroit News is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration turning up the heat on the investigation of faulty fuel pumps Volkswagen. The administration has announced that it is currently examining 97 272 diesel Volkswagen and Audi vehicles after receiving 160 complaints about the issue. NHTSA says that in about half of the complaints, the bad pumps in a stalling of the engine on the highway or in traffic, the engine out of restarts prevented. Nevertheless, no serious accidents have been attributed to faulty pump, although a minor fender bender was reported as a result of the issue.

The study includes 2010 Golf Hatchback, 2009-2010 Jetta sedan and 2010 Audi A3 certain models.

Volkswagen says that the fuel has questions they have encountered have been contaminated by diesel fuel with gasoline pump. The company says that even a small amount of gas mixed with diesel fuel in the pumps can be switched off. Unfortunately for thusly affected owners, fuel system damage is not covered by the warranty by using the wrong fuel.

Meanwhile, Volkswagen has some 120 separate NHTSA fuel slips, some of which came courtesy of dealers and service personnel with the wrong fuel information.

VW headed to Nürburgring enduro with Golf24 racer

Volkswagen will be at the Nurburgring 24-hour race this year after that, the new Golf24 race car. It's a hot little number and we will see it to take to the track during the official race events, which extend from June 23 to 26.

Under the hood, Volkswagen 2.5-liter turbocharged inline-five engine, even though output was pushed to 434 hp and 398 pound-feet of torque. This power is managed by a six-speed sequential gearbox and runs on the ground of permanent four-wheel drive. Combine that with a body that has been optimized to keep the car as flat as possible around corners, and what we have here, golf is a really fast that is willing to eat the competition.

The last time was a Volkswagen Golf in a race at the Nürburgring in 2007, when a 296-hp, front-wheel-drive as a whole placed eighth. Since then, the automaker's Scirocco GT24 for 'ring made mandatory, but since 2011 marks the 35th Anniversary of the infamous GTI hot hatch, it was decided that VW was a completely new Golf-based car in order. Follow the jump for the official press release.

Chicago 2011: Volkswagen debuts turbocharged 2012 Jetta GLI, priced from $23,495

For the first time, Volkswagen debuted the new-for-2011 Jetta sedan, we were told that a total of four engines would be available. The standard Jetta uses the naturally aspirated 2.0-and 2.5-liter mill, and the ever-popular 2.0-liter TDI engine. The last engine in this series - Volkswagen turbocharged 2.0-liter four - now debuting under the hood of the 2012 Jetta GLI, which reveal its official this week at the Chicago Auto Show gets.
Think of the Jetta GLI as a larger, fatter GTI. In small gasoline engine as the 2.0-liter turbo-four producing 200 hp and 207 pound-feet of torque, paired either with a six-speed manual or automatic DSG from VW. The Jetta GLI is using the same XDS differential cross that in the GTI, which debuted helps control the wheels and understeer during cornering.
The Jetta GLI is available in three trim levels - GLI, GLI and GLI Autobahn highway navigation - from $ 23,495, $ 25,545 and $ 26,445 or prices. The base GLI comes with 17-inch alloy wheels, rear lights and revised front end to mention a standard, not to improved suspension geometry for better access to the road. The GLI Autobahn ups the ante with a series of 18-inch alloys, dual-zone automatic climate control, heated leather seats and a new Fender premium audio system. The top trim GLI Autobahn navigation adds, well, navigation, and to start push button.
Looking to meet the 2012 Jetta GLI with dealers in the coming months. For full details, follow the jump for Volkswagen in the press release, and shows for live impressions directly from the Chicago Stock stay tuned.

Report: VW readying seven-passenger SUV

It looks like a few details have been on the rumor, as shown in addition to the Volkswagen SUV family. According to Auto Express, the newcomers have set themselves the target dead on the American market and will offer seating for seven. There is also a slimmer price tag than the current Touareg, all this courtesy of VW America guru Jonathan Browning.

Auto Express also reports that the new crossover / SUV will most likely be built here in the U.S. in the Company Chattanooga, Tennessee production plant next to the new Passat.

The German automaker has no bones about the fact that she wants nothing more than to carve out a larger piece of the American car market made, and it is a portfolio of vehicles, in particular, provides the necessary Yankee tastes. By 2018, VW wants to sell 800,000 vehicles in the land of the free. Last year the company has managed to move 256,830 units.