Volkswagen News

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft and Daimler AG have each acquired a minority shareholding in CHOREN Industries GmbH, Freiberg. Contracts to this effect were signed today in Freiberg.

In a world premiere, Volkswagen will be presenting the Touareg R50 on October 11 at the Australian International Motor Show in Sydney. Its power of 258 kW / 350 PS (at 3,500 rpm) positions the new Touareg version among the most powerful SUVs in the world.

A new price match campaign designed to reassure new and existing Volkswagen customers that they will always pay a fair and competitive price for the service, maintenance and repair of their vehicles is being launched today, under the strapline ‘A competitive price. Promise’.

Windrush Volkswagen Slough, the Volkswagen dealership that has been a focal point of the Farnham Road for 25 years, is mid-way through a major revamp – changes that will greatly increase the workshop, new car showroom, used car forecourt and customer onsite parking, thereby further improving the company’s service to its customers.

Many Golf owners stay loyal to the model. So it is with Haynes manuals. The first one for the VW Golf was published in 1974 and the latest version is the eighth in the series.

Volkswagen has become the first automaker in the UK to support Tyre Safety Month, the first ever nationwide tyre safety campaign taking place during the month of October, lead by TyreSafe, the UK’s leading tyre safety organisation.

The new Volkswagen Tiguan has been awarded a maximum five star rating for occupant protection by Euro NCAP ahead of its launch in the UK next year.

The luxury, seven-seater Volkswagen Caravelle MPV is playing an important and successful role at Minster Chauffeurs, a corporate chauffeur business based in Middlesborough and Darlington.

Volkswagen has joined forces with The National Trust to encourage eco-friendly, fuel-efficient driving.

Volkswagen is set to launch one of the world’s most fuel-efficient liquid-fuelled cars, the Polo BlueMotion, which returns a combined fuel consumption of 74.3 mpg and emits just 99 g/km of carbon dioxide.