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Paris Premieres – New Volkswagens more fuel efficient than ever: Golf (3.8 liter) and Passat (4.9 liter) put lid on fuel costs
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- New Golf – Customer value and comfort invalidate class distinctions
- New Passat BlueTDI – Volkswagen with SCR catalytic converter fulfills Euro-6 standard
- New Passat BlueMotion – 4.9 liter fuel efficiency, now with automatic start/stop
- Phaeton, model year 2009 – V6 FSI with 280 PS, high-end infotainment
- New Touareg North Sails – Edition created in cooperation with sail outfitter
Volkswagen is currently experiencing one of the most successful business years since the company came into existence. This is based on future-oriented model policies and a fleet of global bestsellers. An uninterruptedly strong product offensive is also ensuring that Volkswagen will succeed in further extending its position as the most successful European automotive brand. This year’s Paris Motor Show reflects a mirror image of this offensive: with five world premieres and one public premiere at once, Volkswagen is presenting an exciting spectrum of technologies and design trends. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen – Paris Motor Show 2008′
Hope someone out there gets to visit Stanley!
The winner of the Grand Challenge for autonomous automobiles returns to San Jose, California, where it was originally developed
Grand Challenge 2005The penultimate stop in the Touareg Stanley’s international exhibition tour is The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. The prototype will be on display there from 20 June to 18 July 2008. It was here in the Silicon Valley region near San Francisco that the Stanley project was originally born. Continue reading ‘The Volkswagen Touareg Stanley on display in Silicon Valley’
The Race Touareg is proving to be so strong. Makes you wonder what would have been the outcome of the Dakar.
Click image to view galleryCentral Europe Rally, Leg 6, 25 April 2008
Next chapter in the cross-country rallying thriller: with their fourth leg win, Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (E/F) have taken the lead in the Central Europe Rally.
In the penultimate of the seven legs, the Volkswagen works drivers successfully continued their chase by securing their third consecutive leg win. In the past days, the pairing gained more than eight minutes on their opponent Stéphane Peterhansel (Mitsubishi). With six of the seven legs contested, Sainz/Périn, the overall 2007 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup winners have taken the lead but lie just 18 seconds ahead of the second placed car. At the same time, another success story also was continued in the leg held around Veszprem (Hungary): having prevailed six times in the six legs contested to date, the Volkswagen Race Touareg 2 remains undefeated, in the Central Europe Rally Continue reading ‘Central Europe Rally: Volkswagen works driver Carlos Sainz takes the lead’
Volkswagen is killin it over at the Central Europe Rally but still follow the leader by 1m44s.
We’ve updated our gallery with some outstanding images with the Race Touareg in the air and plowing through some heavy snow/mud! A Must See!
Click image to view galleryCentral Europe Rally, Leg 4, 23 April 2008
In the Central Europe Rally, held in Hungary and Romania, Volkswagen remains in a promising position when it comes to securing the overall win: on the leg from Debrecen to Veszprem, Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (E/F) gave Volkswagen the fourth consecutive leg win, thus working their way up to fifth position in the overall rankings. Continue reading ‘Central Europe Rally: Volkswagen drivers increase pressure with another leg win’
The countdown for the Central Europe Rally (20 - 26 April) is running: with a three-day test in Vesprem, Hungary (08 - 10 April), the Volkswagen factory team is preparing for the cross-country rally run in Eastern Europe.
During the tests Carlos Sainz and Giniel de Villiers are each working for a day and a half on the setup of the Race Touareg on test tracks on a military compound.
At the Central Europe Rally, which leads from Budapest to Romania and back to Hungary, ending at Lake Balaton on 26 April, Volkswagen enters four factory vehicles for Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (E/F), Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (RSA/D) as well as Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/RSA) and Dieter Depping/Timo Gottschalk (D/D).
Another Race Touareg with Carlos Sousa/Andy Schulz (P/D) is running for the Lagos customer team.
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Sporty combination of rugged design and sophisticated materials
Click image to check out the complete R-Line from the 2007 Essen Motor Show
The Volkswagen Individual product offensive proceeds to the next round; the elegant but sporty R-Line accessory package was recently also made available for the Touareg. The ‘Exterieur’ and ‘Plus’ packages include a range of sporty design features and can be ordered individually or together as desired.
The R-Line ‘Plus’ package comprises 20-inch Omanyt-type alloy wheels, a four-spoke multifunctional leather steering wheel, aluminium pedals featuring the R logo and sports-style seats with nappa leather trim. Prices for this package of optional extras for the Touareg start at €5,350.
The ‘Exterieur’ package features a combination of sporty extras such as a radiator grill with a dual-rib design and a matte chrome finish, and stylish body-colour bumpers and sills. The impressive looking package is rounded off with two oval exhaust tips and a high-performance chassis setup that lowers the body by 20 millimetres. Prices for the ‘Exterieur’ package start at €4,450, while the combination of both packages is available from €7,630. They can be ordered for all engine types (with the exception of the Touareg R5 TDI).
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Here we are, the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008! We at oneighturbo.com wish everyone out the a very Happy and Safe New Years..
First up, Dakar 2008! Heres to Volkswagen, the Race Touareg’s and team a successful and safe race! oneighturbo.com will have full coverage with pictures, over the 15 days
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A huge challenge awaits Giniel de Villiers (South Africa) and his German co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz: Fifteen stages over 9,200 kilometres – including 5,736 stage kilometres – make up the 30th running of the Dakar Rally.
‘I’m looking forward to every single day of the rally, and especially the long stages in Africa,’ explains von Zitzewitz, who feverishly awaits the approaching start on 5 January in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
‘The organisers have put together a very demanding route for the Dakar Rally’s 30th anniversary,’ explains Giniel de Villiers, who finished second in 2006 with a Volkswagen Race Touareg and in doing so recorded the best ever position for a diesel vehicle in the desert classic. ‘With around 5,700 stage kilometres the length of the competition is considerably longer than in previous years. Also, with eight stages the percentage of the route in Mauritania is very high, and, as a rule, the toughest stages with huge amounts of sand are encountered there.’
Continue reading ‘“This ‘Dakar’ will be very hard”’
Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn: “We want to win with Volkswagen”
“The Volkswagen factory drivers Carlos Sainz (Spain) and Michel Périn (France) are starting to the Dakar Rally with lots of tailwind: Together, they won the title in the FIA Cross-Country World Cup in November, after clinching one victory and two second places.
Like their teammates Dieter Depping/Timo Gottschalk (Germany), Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/South Africa) and Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (South Africa/Germany), Sainz and Périn are piloting one of four factory-fielded Volkswagen Race Touareg vehicles in the cross-country classic that will start in Lisbon on 5 January and will end in the Senegalese capital of Dakar on 20 January.
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