I know there are lots of car engines that got stuffed into pretty much everything: the Iron Duke was shoved into everything from Camaros to mail trucks, and the original Volkswagen air-cooled ...
Volkswagen. The name conjures images of the iconic Beetle, the beloved Bus, and a whole lineup of reliable, fun-to-drive cars. For decades, VW has built a reputation on solid, German engineering. And ...
Let me ask you a question: Have you ever heard of a W10 engine? Not a V10 or a W12—a W10. Supposedly, Volkswagen made a few prototypes, but that was decades ago. Now, an experimental W10 has emerged ...
There are lots of ways to blow up an engine: lack of maintenance, driving too hard, and cheap upgrades are just some of them. If you asked which of these caused this 2.0-liter turbo VW motor to go ...
The Volkswagen Group has recently closed a 33-going-on-34-year-old chapter in the German automaker's long history. According to Volkswagen Passenger Cars communication manager Andreas Schleith, the ...
The Volkswagen Passat ePro is rewriting the rules for plug-in hybrids. With a massive 22 kWh battery, it delivers an ...
The folks at Hagerty sure do love their timelapses, and their latest one might be the coolest yet. It's a six-minute clip of a Volkswagen Beetle engine being completely torn down and rebuilt, start to ...
Volkswagen used this week’s 2016 Vienna Motor Symposium to present its next-generation 4-cylinder engine. The new engine, dubbed the EA211 TSI evo, is a turbocharged 1.5-liter unit equipped with ...
The VW diesel scandal began with a bang on September 18, 2015. On exactly the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its ...
Volkswagen has made it quite clear that its future is electric, but its motorsport division, appropriately called Volkswagen Motorsport, is following the leader. This past Friday, VW Motorsport ...
Rev hang is a term describing an engine revving decreasing slowly Rev hang is used on purpose to curb NOx emissions Your driving style could be making it worse Manual transmissions are great, do not ...
If not for the well-deserved but still incredible success of the C8 Chevy Corvette, one might easily assume that affordable mid-engine sports cars are a mere chimera. Then again, not everyone has GM’s ...