“sche 911? Mercedes C63? BMW M series? No, it's a VW Passat Estate, more often associated with being a repmobile than a rapidmobile.”

It's nice when the hometown auto show occasions the global debut of a new car, nicer still when that car is the stuff of fanboy legend. A few days before last week's L.A. Auto Show -- when the redesigned 2009 Nissan 370Z was still squirreled away under the sil...

EuroCarBody AWARD 2008 Passat CC Wins Award for Innovative Car Body Presented Passat CC Wins Award for Innovative Car Body Emden Plant Manager Pavel Vacek, who accepted the award for the Passat CC car body at a ceremony in the Emden plant today, was delighted:...

Nov 21, 2008 (Chattanooga Times/Free Press - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- VLKAY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The plant manager for Volkswagen's planned Chattanooga facility said Thursday the sedan it will produce will be a l...

The Volkswagen Passat is a car of considerable ability â a workhorse that has won the hearts of many drivers looking for a reliable, economical and sober-looking saloon with top-notch build quality.

Volkswagen is showcasing its most powerful Passat R36 during the Guangzhou Auto Show, cheshi.net said.

Volkswagenâs partnership with Shangai Auto to build cars and develop new technology together will be showing off the fruits of its labor at this weekâs Los Angeles Auto Show, with the unveiling of a hydrogen fuel cell powered Passat Lingyu sedan.

The fleet sector - like the automotive industry as a whole - is struggling in the midst of the global downturn, with new car sales dropping month on month. Similar troubles exist for fleet operators in Britain and Ireland - difficulties within this sphere mass...

Volkswagen ’s second generation Bluemotion Passat is fitted with an auto stop/start system mated to a new 110PS, 2.0-litre TDI common rail diesel engine.

Like the previous Passat R-GT concept, this Performance CC (as it’s known) has taken the car in an overtly sporting yet utterly elegant direction. It’s intention is to provide potential owners with inspiration to modify their own CC, as well as i...

The fleet sector - like the automotive industry as a whole - is struggling in the midst of the global downturn, with new car sales dropping by 7.3 percent in the last month. As fleet sales normally make up around half of the new car market, difficulties within...

The Volkswagen Buyers' Guide , compares car prices, specifications, insurance groups, CO2 emissions & NCAP ratings plus images.

The new VW Passat BlueMotion 2 now available for dealer orders adds an automatic stop/start system linked to a new 2.0-litre TDI 110hp common rail diesel engine which replaces the outgoing 1.

Saloon cars - that is, proper four-door cars with a boot - are dying but not dead. While almost everyone these days goes for the practicality of either a hatchback or an estate, there are still some buyers who like the rather more upmarket aura of a three-box ...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Mercedes must be terribly proud of Volkswagen's latest Passat. That the CC - or Comfort Coupe as it is called - so thoroughly mimics Stuttgart's CLS is at least partially surprising.

Volkswagen has completed initial trials of a new car-to-car communication system, working with other manufacturers to develop a universal standard for the technology. Essentially, car-to-car equipped vehicles would form their own wireless LAN, communicating in...

“er all, Volkswagen owns equally upscale Audi, so it might have been more appropriate, or at least more politic, to mimic one of its siblings.”

Four Volkswagen models at once were awarded the best grade of "top safety pick" in the most recent publication of the independent US safety institute, "Insurance Institute for Highway Safety".

The Volkswagen Passat has always been a worthy car in search of a personality. Now, with the new slinkily-styled CC version, it finally has one - even if its concept is borrowed lock, stock and barrel from Mercedes-Benz.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest carmaker, said Thursday the company would make slight increases on the price of some of its models beginning Nov. 6. The Wolfsburg-based company said it would raise the price of its Polo model by 0.

Man, this thing is fun. For the first time I've found a Volkswagen R car I want to keep. The Touraeg R50 is a piece of expensive silliness, and the R32 simply shows what a bad idea it is to put a heavy V6 engine in the front of a Golf.

Volkswagen kept Bluemotion fans on their toes at the Paris motor show by revealing two new versions of the Passat Bluemotion. Both versions use what VW calls second generation Bluemotion technology.

This is the new Volkswagen Golf GTI, although VW is calling it a âconceptâ when itâs unveiled at the Paris Motor Show later this week. The sixth-generation version of the most famous hot hatch ever sold is likely to look similar in its final production form...

“stantially larger than its Audi A4 sibling, the Passat easily accommodates five in comfort, with a huge boot that will take luggage for a week away with”

OK, prepare to be as surprised as I was at the first live look at the latest segment-busting car from VW. I had only previously seen one picture of the car's exterior prior to the launch down here in Georgia, and, frankly, I thought the Passat CC was going to ...

The new Volkswagen Passat CC will mark its debut in the Middle East in November 2008, according to Volkswagen Middle East. The company says the new Passat CC represents a brand new segment in the automobile industry combining the rationality of a saloon and th...

“Passat CCBusiness management student Jennifer Bruckner checks out features on the latest VW sedan. Buckner, "It holds your flash drive, it's got a USB”

- The 2009 Volkswagen Passat CC has all the ingredients of a coupe: the aerodynamic styling, the swooping roofline and the aggressive character. Yet, it features not two but four doors.

Although we’ve been talking about the new Passat-derived VW CC for months, it wasn’t until we got to drive the new “four-door coupe†that we realized just how good this car really is.

I've seen a Passat or two and thought: "Seems like a nice, normal car." But I didn't know much about it-or care. Then european car acquired this 3.6-liter V6 version with a six-speed Tiptronic transmission and all-wheel-drive.