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• Volkswagen entering five Race Touaregs in 2010 Dakar Rally

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 597
  Volkswagen will again seek to be the champion at next year’s Dakar Rally and will be entering five Race Touaregs. VW won the rally last year with its Touareg rally concept, which is powered by a 2.5-litre TDI that outputs 276bhp. The car topped the timesheets in 10 of the 13 stages to claim a [...]
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• Qatar Holding plans to sell up to half its Volkswagen shares

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 597
  Qatar Holding wants sell up to 25 million Volkswagen AG preference shares to improve the liquidity of the preference shares, raising about 1.6 billion euros ($2.4 billion) for other transactions. Continued after the jump!However, Qatar Holding, the investment arm of the Gulf state of Qatar, will raise its holding in ...
  9 hours ago

• Automobile Picks 2010 VW GTI As "Automobile Of The Year" [Blogging The Auto Bloggers]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 737
  The 2010 Volkswagen GTI nabbed the title of "Automobile Of The Year" for the second time in five years because of its "blend of athleticism, practicality, and performance." Talk about VeeDub fan-boys. [ Automobile ]
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• Volkswagen-Porsche Now World’s Number One Auto Maker, Toyota Gets 2nd Place

  
  Car Blog | The Automotive news blog — Authority: 132
  Believe it or not, Toyota is no longer the world’s largest automaker as they’ve been overtaken by the VW-Porsche group who sold 4.4 million units this year, 400,000 more than the Japanese manufacturer. After joining forces with Porsche, the Volkswagen Group got help from the German government and benefited from ...
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• Video of the Pikes Peak Audi TTS in Action

  
  Wheels — Authority: 668
  Last week we reported on the autonomous Audi TTS that is being developed by a team from Stanford University, Volkswagen and Sun Microsystems. Now theres a video highlight reel of the work thats been done on Shelley, including footage from tests at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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• Hofele VW Touareg Royster GT 460

  
  WebRidesTV Blog — Authority: 137
  Now here’s something we haven’t seen a whole lot of – tuned Touaregs. Looks like German tuner Hofele has taken it upon itself to move into the uncharted territory of bad ass VW SUVs with its Royster GT 460. For the most part, the kit consists of a damn sharp widebody kit, new fascias front and rear and a ...
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• VW Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition

  
  DUB Daily — Authority: 144
  Beginning 2010, a special edition Jetta inspired by the TDI Cup race cars will be arriving at Volkswagen’s showrooms across the U.S. The special Street Edition gets the front bumper, side skirts and rear valance that are found on the TDI Cup race cars along with larger brakes with red calipers, 18-inch alloy wheels ...
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• Top Gear Spoofs VW Advert — Trouble Over Suicide Before 9 PM

  
  Easy Car Blog — Authority: 448
  BBC’s Top Gear has once again pushed forward with unorthodox marketing. While many might think that this is a mistake, we believe that the TV hit show cannot always screw up like this. The latest problem arose when Ofcom complained about the Top Gear VW Scirocco ad that shows a man committing suicide before 9 [...]
  20 hours ago

• Decision Time

  
  CarDomain Blog — Authority: 615
  To make the decision about my Rabbit rot issue, I called on a few of my friends in the MkI VW world. The answer was unanimous: major frame repair on a unibody car is an expensive ordeal that is not always successful. Even if I restored the rear end, I’d still have to deal with the front end, which has its own host ...
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• Congratulations! VW-Porsche Is Now The World’s Largest Carmaker

  
  Easy Car Blog — Authority: 448
  Volkswagen-Porsche has succeed in taking over from Toyota as the world’s largest car manufacturer. The German automaker has created 4.4 million cars this year, and this tops the 4 million from Toyota.The success came as VW has moved to the Chinese market where they have sold 128,000 cars since July, and this counts ...
  20 hours ago

• Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the World’s largest carmaker

  
  cubi[CC]apacity — Authority: 425
  Europe’s largest is now worlds largest! Volkswagen group has overtaken Toyota to becomes the world’s largest car manufacturer. The company produced 4.4 million cars this year in the first nine months compared to 4 million units by Toyota Motor Corp. The German manufacture also benefited from various government ...
  21 hours ago

• VW Loves Animals, Too! Go Ganley!

  
  Thoughts Fur Paws — Authority: 419
  It’s not often that you hear about a car dealership having an event that benefits animals, or a car dealership whose employees are dedicated to the animal welfare cause. But that’s exactly what Ganley Volkswagen/Subaru of Bedford is, and will be doing this Saturday. They are hosting the second annual “Feed the ...
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• VW Bus stolen 35 years ago returned in mint condition... to Allstate

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Classics , Budget , Minivan/Van , Europe , Volkswagen In 1974, this 1965 Volkswagen Type 2 (a.k.a. Bus) was stolen from Washington State. Fast-forward to October 19 of this year and custom agents at the Port of Los Angeles open up a container bound for Europe only to rediscover said van. ...
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• Volkswagen China Goes South?

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 503
  At the upcoming 2009 Guangzhou auto show, Volkswagen China is expected to announce that they will build a plant in southern China, Gasgoo writes, citing reports in sohu.com. Not much else is revealed, not even which of their two Chinese joint venture partners will get the new plant. Volkswagen cooperates with two ...
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• Magna Hearts GM

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 503
  After scraping by owning Opel together with alleged Russian mobsters, Magna has given up aspirations of being a car company. Magna wants to “focus on its core competencies,” and will continue to be a supplier and contract manufacturer. This is what Magna’s Co-CEO Siegfried Wolf said to Germany’s Handelsblatt. ...
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• Volkswagen-Porsche Worlds Largest Automaker, Toyota The New GM [Breaking]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 737
  VW-Porsche has overtaken Toyota as the worlds largest automaker , at least through the first nine months of 2009, having produced 4.4 million cars to Toyotas 4.0 million. Somebody warn Poland. This information can be heavily qualified because this is only through the first three quarters of the year and comes after ...
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• Vw overtakes Toyota to become the world’s largest car manufacturer

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 597
  Based on the latest set of production figures, Volkswagen has taken over Toyota’s place as the world’s largest carmaker. This report quoted the figures from industry analysts at Global Insight. In the first nine months of 2009, the VW Group manufactured 4.4 million units to Toyota’s 4.0 million. Coming in third ...
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• Frame Rot

  
  CarDomain Blog — Authority: 615
  Earlier this summer, I posted about some of the problems I’d been having with my Rabbit. My rear axle swap turned into a nightmare of cut studs, mangled metal, and major frame rot. It seemed like every time I thought I’d found some good metal to weld to, well, I was wrong. I realized that the unitbody was ...
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• OHIO RESIDENT WINS LIMITED-EDITION VOLKSWAGEN GTI BY PLAYING REAL RACING GTI MOBILE APP

  
  German Car Scene — Authority: 533
  HERNDON, Va., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Volkswagen of America, Inc. today announced that Joseph Chase of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio was the first to win one of six, limited-edition GTI MkVI vehicles as part of its wildly popular and free new gaming app, Real Racing GTI. Volkswagen became the first automobile manufacturer to ...
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• Autocar Pits VW Scirocco R Against Ford Focus RS

  
  WebRidesTV Blog — Authority: 137
  When it comes to wicked sheet metal we can’t have, few cars flip our switches quite like the Ford Focus RS. The 300 horsepower Blue Oval is distilled from the company’s rally racing experience, and despite being two wheel drive, is quicker than any of the Focus predecessors. A close second would have to be the VW ...
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