Posts Tagged ‘Volkswagen’
Jetta Breaks Away
June 17th, 2010 
Kyle VW Jetta VW’s Golf with a distended boot is no more, shocking I know considering its over 9 million units sales success. Okay, that’s a bit of a half truth, VW haven’t killed their Jetta, but it will no longer be based on Golf underpinnings. The new Jetta is well and truly its own car [...]
Russian Polo Saloon
June 3rd, 2010 Kyle VW Polo Saloon Hey, what do you know, the German’s finally made it to Moscow. And they’re only 69 years later than expected, but I guess better late than never. If you didn’t quite catch that, well, no one can blame you for sleeping through high school history, so we’ll let it slide. Anyway, VW [...]
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Tags: 1.6 petrol, Polo, Russia, saloon, tiptronic, Volkswagen, VW 
No Comments »VW CrossPolo 1.6
June 2nd, 2010 Kyle I’ll be honest, despite trying my best not to like this new CrossPolo, I can’t help myself. The current generation Polo is excellent and even though this is a perturbation of the Polo, I still want one for a road test. As long as it’s the 1600 petrol, that I think is best in its [...]
Decadent GTI’s
May 18th, 2010 Kyle VW Golf VI GTI Worthersee Specials Every year hordes of GTI fans descend on Worthersee in Austria to pay homage to the legendary Golf GTI. Okay, not every mark was a legend, but the current Golf VI variant is pretty special. In years gone by VW have treated the world to some fairly mad iterations [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: Citi Mk1, Golf GTI, GTI Adidas, GTI Excessive, Hot Hatch, Volkswagen, VW, Worthersee No Comments »VW caves to green pressure
May 6th, 2010 Kyle VW Golf blue e-motion The Golf VI is one of the most capable and well rounded platforms in existence today. The chassis is responsive, and in GTI trim, the drivetrain and brilliant X-Diff is an engineering triumph. VW even has all the bases covered with regards to powerplants, from the economical entry level options, [...]
Drive Impressions: VW Polo 1.6 Manual
April 15th, 2010 Kyle VW Polo 1.6 Manual Not very long ago at all I did the road test on the 1.4L Polo, read the road test in the April edition of Drive in fact, but to summarise I had many good things to say about it. To be honest there was actually very little at all that I [...]
VW goes R
March 17th, 2010 Kyle VW R Division BMW have the M division, Mercedes have AMG, and Audi have their RS range. It really was only a matter of time then considering everyone else has one, yes, the people’s car is getting a performance division, the R division.
VW Polo Vivo replaces Citi
March 12th, 2010 Kyle VW Polo Vivo VWSA have finally launched their replacement for the Citi, although it isn’t a Citi replacement apparently. And the secret which VWSA have been trying to keep is a, well it’s a Polo. VW have done their old trick of rebranding a now older generation platform, which is no problem considering the success [...]
VW Scirocco gets 155kW
February 8th, 2010 Kyle The VW Scirocco has finally gotten the motor it should always have had to begin with, that is the 155kW 2.0L TSI. This uprated engine replaces the 147kW 2.0L TSI which had been nicked from the Golf V GTI, and should be the perfect stop gap until the sure to be brilliant Scirocco R arrives. [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: 147kW, 155kW, 2.0L TSI, DSG, Golf, GTI, Scirocco, VAG, Volkswagen, VW No Comments »You win some, you lose some
December 15th, 2009 Christo With the global motoring industry slowly but surely beginning to show signs of recovery, it’s no surprise that there are a number of deals going on between the world’s major players. 2009 has already seem some interesting changes in ownership within the motoring industry, and this trend looks set to continue in 2010. One deal [...]
