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Yesterday, the German automakers Daimler and Volkswagen posted the 2010 sales figures, with emerging markets such as China seeing big demand for Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Volkswagen vehicles.     VW, Europe’s biggest automaker, said sales of its own nameplate models topped 4.5 million for the first time ever, an increase of 13.9 percent from 2009. The group, which aims to ...

  The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft has extended the contract of Management Board Chairman Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn by a further period of five years.   Winterkorn is to head Europe’s largest carmaker until the end of 2016. Winterkorn became Chairman of the Management Board on January 1, 2007 and his current contract expires on December 31, 2011.  

Volkswagen of America, Inc announced that the firm will be partnering with Fender Musical Instruments Corp to bring Premium Audio Systems to Select 2012 Volkswagen Models.   The new Jetta GLI will be the first Volkswagen model featuring the all-new Fender Premium Audio System, developed exclusively for the Volkswagen brand. It will be available in all other Jettas later, and ...

Volkswagen AG will expand vehicle and component production at their Germany plant in Wolfsburg and Kassel, Stuttgarter Zeitung reported. In the statement, Volkswagen will increase daily output of the Tiguan compact sport-utility vehicle in Wolfsburg to 1,000 units next year from 750 and build more two-way shift gearboxes at the Kassel plant, the newspaper said. Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen, aiming to surpass ...

[singlepic id=3981 w=630 h= float=] A Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled by a standard production passenger car on a single tank of fuel. The attempt, carried out by a team from The Sunday Times, involved driving from Maidstone in Kent to the South of France and back. The Passat BlueMotion ...

[singlepic id=3825 w=630 h= float=] [singlepic id=3822 w=630 h= float=] Couple of weeks ago, we found some Volkswagen Golf 1.4 TSI at the dealer stock yard in Kuala Lumpur. Unofficially from Volkswagen Malaysia, the sales order on the 1.4 model is doing well. The Golf 1.4 TSI with Light & Sound Package that priced at RM155,888 is one of the ...

Volkswagen to have Complete Knock Down (CKD) units by March next year,  however it’s partner in Malaysia is not Proton. It’s DRB-HICOM. Surprise, surprise. It made me feel like the movie –  Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Some of our hopes were called off since Volkswagen made an announcement 2 months back calling off talks with Proton about ...

The long-awaited standard model of Golf, Scirocco and Polo have just make available by Volkswagen Group Malaysia. The Golf and Scirocco are fitted with the award-winning 1.4 TSI 4-cylinder direct injection twin-charged engine, while the new Polo is fitted with the 1.2 TSI 4-cylinder direct injection turbo-charged engine. The Golf and Scirocco 1.4 TSI… [singlepic id=3645 w=630 h= float=] [singlepic id=3628 w=630 h= ...