For Rainer Zietlow and team to drive all 16,000 miles of the Pan-American Highway in 12 days in a 2011 Volkswagen Touareg TDI® Clean Diesel SUV was one thing (and what a thing it was!). But can you imagine driving from Argentina to Alaska in a 1981 Volkswagen Beetle? Well, Pedro Delgado doesn’t have to … Read more
For years, rally racing has been the soccer of motorsports: insanely popular everywhere except the US. But now, that’s all changing. With a growing fan base and an increase in television coverage of rally events, it’s clear that there’s room for more than one European sport to catch on in America. (Editor’s note: Sorry, cricket. … Read more
Fans of the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup were sad to see the first clean diesel racing series in the U.S. draw to a close in 2010, but now they have reason to rejoice. Thanks to Ryan Arciero of New Jersey Motorsports Park Racing School, they can now drive the same racecars used in the Jetta … Read more
It’s a story as old as time: girl meets Touareg, falls in love, and drives happily ever after. (That’s a thing, right?) We recently caught up with Volkswagen product specialist Danielle Gumro to get her thoughts on her daily driver, a 2011 Volkswagen Touareg TDI Clean Diesel. Danielle’s Touareg—which she nicknamed her “Miracle Whip”—is more … Read more
What’s more American than baseball? Outside of baseballs filled with apple pie (patent pending), we’re gonna go with cars, specifically cars built in America. So it makes perfect sense that WaterWerks, the West Coast’s premier water-cooled VW and Audi car show, took place August 6th and 7th in Cheney Stadium, home to reigning Pacific Coast … Read more
2012 Passat Think of it as a German-American: the 2012 Volkswagen Passat features the German Engineering we’re known for, but is being built at a new facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Because we know the folks at Motor Trend love nothing more than a driving date, we put on our finest new car fragrance and invited … Read more
What do you get when you take more than 21,000 VW fanatics and their beloved cars, add perfect summer weather and an entire raceway rented out just for them? We thought you’d never ask. Click on the video below for a full recap of Waterfest 17.
Newsflash, people: these blogs don’t write themselves. Similarly, Facebook doesn’t create posts all on its own and Twitter is not self-tweeting. A lot of work goes into this stuff, so Volkswagen sent their Social Media Team on a much-deserved vacation. And by “vacation,” we mean “work-filled business trip.” (Don’t worry—it’s a labor of love for … Read more
As they’ve done every summer for the past 17 years, Volkswagen enthusiasts descended on Englishtown, New Jersey for Waterfest, North America’s largest VW and Audi car show. The event, which took place July 16th and 17th, drew more than 21,000 attendees who were anxious to show off their tricked-out rides. Over the course of the … Read more
TDI Panamericana Challenge Earlier this week, we celebrated the news that Rainer Zietlow, Carlos Fernandez and Marius Biela completed the TDI-Panamericana Challenge in world-record time, traveling nearly 16,000 miles and passing through 14 countries in under 12 days. But the team didn’t make the trip on a bicycle built for three (Editor’s note: new challenge … Read more