After outfitting our '08 VW Passat 2.0T project car with Privat wheels, Continental ContiSportContact3 tires, H&R coilovers and VW's Hi-Def body kit, it was time to give our family cruiser more power.
Over the years, we’ve featured lots of big number tuner cars, and yet this VW still elicits a sharp intake of breath. These are the kind of numbers you might expect from a Bugatti Veyron, if it was ...
The last time we saw a van on the Nürburgring it was a Ford Transit during season six of “Top Gear UK,” where pro driver Sabine Schmitz nearly cracked the 10-minute mark on the 13-mile track. If you ...
We have some bad news for all you Volkswagen R32 fans out there: Thomas Wegehaupt, spokesman for Volkswagen, has informed us that there will be no U.S. version of the R32 for the 2009 model year. It’s ...
Wolfgang Schreiber is smart like you wouldn’t believe. Scary smart. I-vill-crush-you-like-bugs smart. Best known as the technical director of the Bugatti Veyron program, Schreiber is one of Volkswagen ...
I’m not sure who had “exploding VW Golf values” on their 2023 bingo card, but props if that’s you. Just a few weeks after a Mk2 GTI sold for $87,000 on Bring a Trailer, another special example—this 97 ...
VW Group tuning expert Revo has set a new record for a commercial vehicle lap of the Nürburgring during a recent test session– smashing the world famous lap set by Sabine Schmitz in a Ford Transit van ...
Discounting the squarish designs that dominated autodom until the mid-'30s and the cubism of Borg spacecraft, no manufacturer has mined more glamour and performance from rectilinear conveyances than ...