Volkswagen managed to get four awards from the prestigious What Car? contest. The famous 2012 Volkswagen Up! claimed Car of the Year as well as the best City Car award. Other two victories are for Small Family Car – Volkswagen Golf VI and the coveted Safety Award.
“The Volkswagen up! sets new standards for a car at £10,000. It’s a city car that can seat four adults, while offering new levels of refinement, quality and maturity at this price; none of its rivals feels quite so grown-up. Buyers will be looking for even more for their money than ever in 2012, so the up! is a worthy winner of the What Car? Car of the Year.”, said What Car? editor-in-chief Chas Hallett.
The Safety Award was in large part the result of the availability of Volkswagen’s innovative City Emergency Braking system on the Up!. Although safety features are no longer the preserve of larger, more expensive models, the judges were impressed by this particular example of ‘big car’ technology filtering down to a smaller model. The system uses sensors to scan the space ahead, then applies the brakes automatically if it detects that the car is about to hit an object in front. City Emergency Braking costs from just £225.
The Up! is available to order now, with prices starting at £7 995 (RRP OTR) and with the first models arriving in showrooms in March.
Source: Volskwagen
The most reliable car is the BMW 3-Series, according to the survey, retaining its number one position from 2010, while the Honda Accord retains its second place from 2010. What is more, German brands have caught up with Japanese cars when it comes to reliability. In other words – six German brands appear in the top 10 as three of them in the top five.
SIEMONEIT RACING has unveiled a special tuning package for the new Golf VI GTI. The name of the project is black pearl.
The fastest Volkswagen Golf will compete tomorrow at the Nurburgring-Nordschleife in the legendary 24-hour race. The spectacular Golf24 has been prepared specially to take place at the race – June 23 to June 26, 2011. Fitting the 35th anniversary of the Golf GTI, Volkswagen Motorsport has developed a thorough-bred racing version of the world’s highest-volume production car.
Volkswagen Golf VI GTI Edition 35 will have its official debut on June 1st. However, the manufacturer has released some pictures ahead of its premiere. The car is built specially to celebrate the model’s 35th anniversary.
Volkswagen now offers special options package for the Polo, Golf and Golf Plus, which can save you money. The STYLE editions features light-alloy wheels, fog lamps, tinted side and rear windows and STYLE badging. A Style-Plus package adds a sunroof or panorama roof as well as new set of alloys.
APS has announced a tuning package for Volkswagen Golf VI R.
The mightiest VW Golf was R-Spec delivering 266hp and priced more than 36 000 Euro. Now JE Design offers even better performance for Golf VI at reasonable price. Furthermore, the tuning company provides the aerodynamics package and the light alloy wheels take care of the individual look as well as deep sound from new rear silencer.
VW Golf VI Bluemotion is trully amazing car capable of doing 74.3 mpg and also freed from road tax. The vehicle is named Green Car of the Year at the What Car? Green Awards, held in association with Warranty Direct.
The Bavarian based car specialist MTM, announced its latest tuning programme for the Volkswagen’s notorious Golf 6 GTD. An output upgrade, new exhaust system, rims, lowering springs and brakes are included in the package. 
The new highly efficient engine from VW, the 1.2 litre turbo petrol is now available to order for Polo, Golf and Golf Plus. VW is continuing the tradition by developing small turbo engines from the TSI range.