2006 Volkswagen Golf

Australians John and Helen Taylor are one frugal couple. In 2006, they set a Guinness World Record by driving around the world using 24 tanks of fuel in a Volkswagen Golf . They hope to best the current U.S. cross-country miles-per-gallon record on a drive across America with one of VW's newly released 50-state-compliant clean diesel Volkswagen Jetta TDIs. The couple developed "FuelStretch"... read more

Autocar magazine also reports that Volkswagen is ditching V-6 power in its next hot edition of the Golf, and will use the occasion to meld the R32 and GTI ranges. The new high-performance GTI edition of the Golf/Rabbit hatchback will appear in showrooms early next year in Europe, with U.S. plans unknown. It may also be shown off this fall at the Paris auto show . The big change will be under the... read more

It didn't take long for embargoed images of the new Volkswagen Golf to break free--as in this morning, courtesy Autoblog.nl (no relation to the upstanding cousins of AOL.) The Dutch site posted these pictures today of the sixth-generation Golf, which isn't entirely certain for a trip to the U.S., as VW is realigning its products in the U.S. so that one day, they can make money again here. The new... read more

Volkswagen's been hammered by the sinking dollar for years--but the German automaker has a plan to spread its currency pain more evenly. Along with building a U.S. factory due to be announced last month, the automaker's trying to slash production costs for its next generation of vehicles, including the Passat and now, the Rabbit. Back in 2006, Volkswagen executives told me that the plans for a... read more

Naming cars isn’t an art, and it isn’t a science—sometimes it’s just a stab in the dark. Hence the entrance and exit of the Five Hundred nameplate at Ford—and now, the return of the Rabbit moniker at VW. Americans have dim, dark memories of the Rabbit, but it’s still more evocative than Golf, unless it’s a Buick in question. And with VW’s iffy... read more