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2010 Audi A3 TDI

While the US market may not be the largest consumer of diesels by a long shot, Volkswagen (and to a lesser extent BMW) have taken notable steps to changing that. VW’s TDI-equipped Jetta, Jetta Sportwagen, and Golf have sold briskly by offering a winning combination of fuel economy and price. Taking the idea of a [...]
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Inside Volkswagen’s Silicon Valley Gadget Lab

Volkswagen never wants you to forget that its cars are engineered in Germany–hey, its current slogan is “Das Auto.” But cool Web tools,  innovative gizmos, and digital entertainment aren’t exactly synonymous with German engineering. It’s Silicon Valley that’s the world’s headquarters for that stuff. And so it’s not that startling that much of VW’s work [...]
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Audi Unveils Sleek New A7 Sportback in Munich

As he introduced Audi’s new A7 Sportback on Monday evening at the Pinakothek der Moderne art museum in Munich, Rupert Stadler, Audi’s chairman, quoted Oscar Wilde. “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it,” he said. Audi is most likely hoping that the world’s motorists will yield to the tempting lines of [...]
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Volkswagen Bluesport gets the green light

Now this is interesting. Hot on the heels of rumored turmoil in the VW/Audi/Porsche house over the BlueSport roadster, AutoExpress is reporting that VW has given the droptop concept the green light for production. Color us skeptical. It’s not that we don’t want to believe that VW has told its squabbling children to cool their [...]
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The 2011 Volkswagen Jetta: It’s not a Golf anymore!

The new 2011 Jetta was unveiled in New York City’s Times Square in front of an interested crowd and plenty of automobile journalists from all over the world. It was a coming out party of sorts for this model. Until now, the Jetta was derived from the Golf, but after six generations, it will finally [...]
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Battle of the Sexes- and their cars: Women love Volkswagen Beetle, men like Bugatti, finds study

Girls love the bug. Guys like the Bugatti. Attracted by its price and practicality, women are more likely to purchase a Volkswagen Beetle than any other automobile, according to a study by Truecar.com. Men, however, prefer the more masculine GM trucks and expensive luxury sport vehicles. Although only 36 percent of new car buyers are women, they [...]
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The $16,000 Jetta: VW’s New Entry-Level Assault on Toyota and Honda

The Volkswagen Group (including Audi) is profitable, but Volkswagen’s U.S. arm is not — it’s been struggling with low sales of its entry-level cars, such as the Golf and the Jetta. For 2011, VW made the bold and probably smart move of lowering the price of admission for the new Jetta, introduced in New York [...]
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Top-selling Audi A4 and Q5 models earn Insurance Institute TOP SAFETY PICK rating

Audi of America, Inc. announced that the Q5 and A4 models earned 2010 TOP SAFETY PICK ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The two best-selling Audi models join the Audi A3 in achieving the highest safety recognition granted by the influential IIHS. Today’s news means Audi offers more vehicles with the TOP [...]
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2012 Audi A3 Rendered

The next Audi A3 will once again leapfrog the Golf. BY JENS MEINERS, ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTIAN SCHULTE June 2010 We like the current Audi A3; it’s sporty, compact, and stylish. But its fiercest competitor is a close relative, the VW Golf, a car that makes it hard to justify the big price of the little Audi. Since the [...]
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Join Us for Our Big Sales Event 5/26-5/29!!

  We are having a 96 Hour Sales Event and you’re invited! We will be pulling out all the stops and doing deals that are unheard of!  Like the 2010 VW Beetle with a 1.9% APR & $750 Loyalty Cash! Our CC, Golf and Jetta all with a 1.9% APR! And if that is not enough, you [...]
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