Brazil’s draconian import restrictions put a lid on the possibility of buying a Porsche or Mercedes back in the sixties and seventies so car enthusiasts had to look closer to home for their sports car kicks. Hence the emergence of a rash of small, specialist domestic car manufacturers eager to create something exotic with a … Continued
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Golf GTi – the birth of an icon. From humble beginnings those three little letters would go on to change the face of motoring forever. So here’s a timely look back at how Volkswagen’s diminutive supermini pioneered the whole hot-hatch phenomenon…
In its early quest to expand its range and break away from the Beetle, Volkswagen experimented with a variety of different vehicles under its EA (Entwicklungsauftrag) or ‘development assignment’ programme. Needless to say, some prototypes turned out to be more successful than others…
We recently touched on the early sales success of Volkswagen’s Transporter here when a dedicated factory at Hanover had to be built to cope the explosion in demand for the handy holdall. Well, its popularity didn’t go unnoticed by other manufacturers keen to develop a rival in order to take a slice of the lucrative … Continued
It seems a lifetime ago that VW badges were being stolen en masse from our cars – but were you one of the many Dub owners that got ‘Beastied’ back in the late 1980s?
We’ve always had a penchant for oddball VW-powered specials and this miniature rear engined Brazilian creation certainly ticks all the right ‘what the hell is it?’ boxes…
It was an incredible six decades this 8th March since the very first VW Transporter came off the production line at its new dedicated plant in Hanover – and Volkswagen is planning a special exhibition to mark the occasion.
If you’re confused about precisely when your VW becomes tax exempt, here are some useful guidelines to help you sort the fact from fiction…
It’s strange to think Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel engine, never got to drive the massively advanced and beautifully styled NSU Ro80. Poor eyesight meant he never actually held a licence. Yet his pioneering engine design for the iconic sixties creation led to it becoming a motoring icon. Not for its sales success, obviously, … Continued
A Jetta from the original Fast & Furious, driven by Jesse in the 2001 mad hat road race epic, sold at auction recently for an astonishing £31,650.
