Volkswagen Passat News

Volkswagen, plus their sibling Audi, deliver a wide array of diesel powered cars, SUVs, and CUVs to its US customers with just two engines.

Edmunds tests hundreds of vehicles a year. Cars, trucks, SUVs, we run them all, and the numbers always tell a story.

THE Volkswagen CC shrugs off the workaday Passat identity and steps into the limelight with even more confidence.

Diesel engines today meet the same emissions standards as gasoline vehicles. Improvements in fuel injection and electronic engine control technologies have increased power and fuel efficiency.

Once only seen in Europe on supercars, full-LED front headlamps are moving into the compact segment on models such as the new Peugeot 308.

If you need any more evidence that the automotive cultures are different between Europe and the U.S. you need look no further at the list of winners of the 2013 Tow Car Awards, conducted collaboratively between Practical Caravan and What Car? Magazines for the U.K.'s Camping and Caravanning Club.

A late-model Jeep pulls into the high school parking lot, pulsating with attitude, beat-heavy hiphop blasting from the open windows, bass cannons vibrating the earth.

All new last year, this North American-developed and -built Passat dives into the deep end of the mid-size family sedan pool with competitive pricing, conservative styling, and a bigger footprint.

VW, which sells 60 percent of vehicles outside its core European market, said on Wednesday it will pull 26,000 cars off the roads in Australia, the third straight month VW has had to recall models after similar steps in China, Singapore and Japan.

In the paint shop at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant, tall robotic arms coat the metal frames of Passat after Passat in white, gold, black and tan.

Volkswagen in New Zealand has instituted a recall of more than 2500 Volkwagen cars following recall reports from China, Japan, Europe, the US and most recently Australia.

SYDNEY: German auto giant Volkswagen yesterday recalled nearly 26,000 vehicles in Australia and Audi followed suit with 6,000 cars due to a gearbox problem that could cause a loss of power while driving.

AUDI will recall more than 6000 hatchbacks due to the same gearbox safety concerns that prompted its parent company Volkswagen to announce a recall of almost 26,000 vehicles.

The move is being enforced following customers' uproar on safety issues particularly on the vehicles' direct-shift gearbox .

Antony is an automotive obsessive: Whether it drives, sits there looking pretty or intrigues from afar, he'll talk and write about it.

The vehicles affected were built between June 2008 and September 2011 and include the Golf hatchback, the Jetta sedan, the Polo hatchback, the Passat sedan and wagon and the Caddy van.

Here's the thing: it takes a lot of practice to drive like a true hypermiler. The 2013 VW Passat TDI Clean Diesel with a manual transmission, for example, has an EPA estimated 31 city/43 highway mile per gallon rating.

A University of Tennessee research study released last week showed local incomes and tax revenues had been increased by millions of dollars since Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant opened for production.

Leaders with Volkswagen America announced Friday that they will use the locally made TDI Passat to try for a Guinness World Records achievement.

On first impression the Volkswagen CC does not look like a VW, but a much more expensive upscale German rival from the likes of Mercedes or BMW, especially after its recent mid-cycle refresh.