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Volkswagen's Multivan is returning as a camper van for Europe's holidaymakers, and VW has announced that its new holiday-oriented version will arrive shortly after mid-2024 with a pop-top roof that makes room for a bunk bed. With their blend of van and motorhome styles, VW's campers are a familiar sight across Europe, where lakes, forests and coastal roads fill up with families and pensioners driving various generations of California-badged camper van models come summer. Volkswagen hasn't announced prices yet, but says orders for the so-called New California start in June and that it will be b...
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Volkswagen's home city of Wolfsburg in Germany will become the new home of the VW-backed GTI community bash this July under the motto of "Icons Coming Home". This is great news for hot hatch fans after the famous Wörthersee GTI was struck from the calender due to environmental concerns. After a Covid-enforced three-year absence, local municipality Maria Wörth decided it doesn't fit with its environmental policy. The GTI Treffen had been running on the shore of Lake Wörth since 1982 and has been officially sponsored by Volkswagen since the mid-2000s. The legendary gathering will now take place ...
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Leaders of German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) are expecting the next two years in the highly competitive Chinese car market to be difficult, but don't fear challenges from rival Chinese carmakers in the European market. Chinese carmakers will eventually need to invest in European production plants to build vehicles locally instead of shipping huge numbers of finished vehicles by ocean, Ralf Brandstätter, head of VW's China business, said on Wednesday in Beijing ahead of a major auto show in the Chinese capital. That would also put Chinese competitors on more equal footing with European ri...
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German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) is expecting the next two years in the highly competitive Chinese car market to be difficult. "In April, we saw another round of price reductions coming, so this fierce competition will hold on for the next few years," VW board member Ralf Brandstätter said in Beijing ahead of a major upcoming motor show due to open next week. Many manufacturers of purely electric cars have significantly damaged their profit margins in recent years, he said, "so this leads to a consolidation of the market." He suggested that companies with lower sales volumes, below 100,...
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"Hey, what's the weather like along the route?" When BMW developer Justin Forsyth gets into the prototype of the new Mini Countryman, he no longer has to press any buttons or tap into screen menus. That's because the next generation of the popular small car will also see a new digital assistant go into series production. "It has its very own character, British accent and a touch of English humour", said Forsyth, who works as a programmer at the manufacturer's tech office in Silicon Valley. Forsyth quipped that he was once reprimanded by the car for being a late riser by the chatbot when he onc...
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Volkswagen has officially registered a slew of new model names which hint that SUV models in the pipeline may be badged as a Taroko, Tempus or Tukan. The new names were lodged with the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich in a bid to ensure they are not used by other companies. Many of Volkswagen's current model names begin with a "T" such as T-Roc, Tiguan and Touareg and it looks like the Wolfsburg maker is keen to continue the tradition. Other name registered by VW in Munich include Therion, Tamis, Taira, Tyber, Tivas, Tera, Teriam, Therion and Thron. Whether there will soon be a VW ...
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German auto giant Volkswagen saw total sales across its brands fall in March compared to the same month last year, with the drop particularly pronounced in electric vehicles. Total worldwide sales in March across Volkswagen's brands fell by 1.4% to 800,600, the company announced on Wednesday. Sales declined in the key markets of Europe and China, among others. Sales rose, however, in North America, and sales for the core Volkswagen and SEAT brands grew. Sales for higher-priced luxury carmakers Audi and Porsche declined, however. In the first quarter as a whole, the Volkswagen Group delivered 2...
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To mark half a century since launching a bestseller car, Volkswagen is opening a new exhibition dedicated to the VW Golf at its factory and headquarters in the German city of Wolfsburg. About an hour from Berlin by train, the Volkswagen Automuseum is telling the story of the cult hatchback with a focus on the first generation from 1974 to 1983. The Scirocco, which was launched six months before the first Golf and was built on its platform, is also part of the show, which can be seen until the end of February 2025. The successor to the Beetle rolled off the production line in Wolfsburg for the ...
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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN) is to test its self-driving ID Buzz AD electric van for the first time under realistic conditions and with passengers on board. "We want to offer test drives for customers in Hamburg this year - under real conditions," announced Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles chief executive Carsten Intra at VWN's annual press conference in Hanover on Thursday. The company plans to start the tests in the second half of the year. Initially, however, it will only be a trial run with selected users. The service will eventually go into full operation through the Group subsidiar...
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Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN) is to test its self-driving ID Buzz AD electric van for the first time under realistic conditions and with passengers on board. "We want to offer test drives for customers in Hamburg this year - under real conditions," announced Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles chief executive Carsten Intra at VWN's annual press conference in Hanover on Thursday. The company plans to start the tests in the second half of the year. Initially, however, it will only be a trial run with selected users. The service will eventually go into full operation through the Group subsidiar...
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