Hybrids Stumble While Diesels Surge The new-car sales figures for June must be a cause for concern for fans of hybrids. But at the same time they're very encouraging for diesel proponents. You don't want to read too much into one month's sales numbers, but the numbers do tell a story. Ever since gasoline prices tumbled from their highs of last year, sales of hybrids have tumbled along with them. A   ...read more

What do you get when you combine a veteran car enthusiast, a self-styled family man and a busker-crime novelist-knitter? For Volkswagen Tiguan it’s the perfect mix of contestants to take part in the first heat of the People's Reviewer challenge. As part of a three month competition to find a new, "real-world" type of car reviewer, the first three competitors - Stefan from Margate, Eric from    ...read more

The Volkswagen Passat CC four-door coupé model has won the "red dot Design Award 2009 - Best of the Best" after having recently received the Australian International Design Award.   ...read more

The German automaker Porsche is already offering a 3.0 Liter V6 diesel option for the Cayenne SUV. However, the sports car maker is also considering a diesel powered Panamera sometime in the near future. "There are V6 and V8 diesels within the VW Group that could be used as a basis." This means the company might add either same 240 HP 3.0 Liter V6 from the Cayenne, or even the 322 HP 4.2 Liter V8    ...read more

Introducing the NEW PES G4 MPI supercharger system for the VAG 4.2L 5V engine group . At the heart of the system is the PES cast aluminum intake manifold and an Eaton M90 supercharger.   ...read more

Old cars never die. They go to junkyards and donate parts to keep their brethren on the road in perpetuity. They rust out in back yards and collect dust and hay in barns. Or their tooling goes somewhere else. Scores of older cars live on in lesser developed countries, most famously the VW Beetle in [...]   ...read more

VW's Scirocco coupe is one of the cars of the year - we took the TDI version to Le Mans, possibly one of the hardest road trips a car can make given the demands placed upon it.   ...read more