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Next Golf GTI scooped
Paul Horrell reports back with all the information on the seventh generation of the iconic hot hatch
Read about the next generation Volkswagen Golf GTILatest news
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(New) New Beetle
This one here is the Volkswagen Beetle R Concept - using the Golf R and Scirocco R's 2.0-litre turbo four. Yes, please.
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VW Up
So, is it rear engine/rear drive like the Bug? No. But rumblings around Wolfsburg suggested it was tantalisingly close to being so - the Germans decided that all-new architecture was too pricey so settled on trad front-engine/drive underwear.
You'll get to choose between two three-pot engines at launch, and there's an electric e-Up coming in 2013. Both the petrols are very very clean, though - in BlueMotion flavour with stop-start tech they'll return 4.2 litres/100km and emit less than 100g/km of CO2.
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VW Up
You'd be forgiven for assuming that the both the new Beetle and the new new Beetle descend from the original, err, Beetle. But let's face, their kettle of fish is a very different one. They are fashion-conscious styling exercises. They are resolutely not tiny, cheap people's cars.
But the new Up, which was unveiled today four years after the concept landed, could be (though it's officially called the up! [sic], but we won't tolerate such grammatical trespasses). Built to replace the Fox, it is small (3540mm long and 1640mm wide), it is cheap and it is pleasant to look at. And it will be landing in Australia in the last quarter of the year.
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2011 Car of the Year winner: VW Scirocco R
Behold, our 2011 Car of the Year winner! The Volkswagen Scirocco R.
Which should come as a relief to our beloved readers who plan to take our advice (poor things). The Scirocco, unlike basically every other car in our COTY fleet, is affordable.
Indeed, for the price you pay, it's hard to go past the Scirocco for its combination of curves and performance.
Said judge, His Editorness Stephen Corby: "We had high expectations for Volkswagen's Scirocco R. Incredibly, it not only matched all our hopeful hopes and dreams, it exceed one of them. We were willing to bet it would cost $50,000 plus when it finally arrived in Australia, but VW has somehow stuck it in at $47,490... What we've got here is a very worthy winner. It's hot stuff."
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VW WRC in action
Dual world champ takes new Polo WRC for a blast
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Stig’s Supercar Showdown: wallpapers
Hi-res decoration for your computer from our multi-million pound road trip to Italy
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2012 Volkswagen Up revealed
Small, frugal, cool looking – is this the Beetle’s true spiritual successor?
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Video: this month's cover shoot
11 cars, 6071 bhp, £3.7 million and many tyres. Welcome to our fantastic new issue of Top Gear Magazine
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Volkswagen at Worthersee in pics
Some more pics of some Golfs at the annual Worthersee meet in Austria…
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Volkswagen's hot Golf history in pics
We look back on three-and-a-half decades of Volkswagen’s hot hatch...
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VW launches Polo R WRC car
World’s hottest Polo revealed ahead of 2013 debut. 300bhp, 4WD and a mighty wing
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New Volkswagen Beetle: first pics
Third generation of VW’s long-running bug makes world debut. Now ‘sportier’…
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Shanghai motor show 2011: new VW Beetle
Third generation of VW’s long-running bug makes world debut. Now ‘sportier’…
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Can Wolfsburg be serious? Listen to chairman Martin Winterkorn, and you can take it to the bank. "To meet the EU targets of limiting global warming to just 2°C by 2050," he says, "then the average fuel consumption of the world's car fleet will need to be about 0.75l/100km by then." Er, I hate to tell you this, but VW's XL1 launched at the inaugural Qatar motor show in Doha at the end of January, might just be the supercar your children's children lust after.
So will you want one? We snatched a drive around the emirate's capital, where a consequence of the highest GDP in the world means these are the most exclusive traffic jams outside of Monaco on race week.
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