The Volkswagen Group has recently closed a 33-going-on-34-year-old chapter in the German automaker's long history. According to Volkswagen Passenger Cars communication manager Andreas Schleith, the ...

Back in the early-to-mid 1940s, the German Messerschmitt Bf-109G fighter plane's 35.7-L Daimler V12 made the neighborhood of 1,500 horsepower. In its day, the German Luftwaffe, its corpulent, ...

The VR6 engine powered a variety of VW models. The last of them was the 2018 VW Passat. Today, these models are a bargain.

The world of engine development is a complicated one. The number of variables that need to be considered when shoving a power plant into any given chassis is so high that it'd make even a seasoned ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

Rolling out of the garage and onto the empty driveway, the first beams of daylight drip onto the midnight paint. So rarely does the car see the light of day, it's as if it's unsure of what comes next.

Volkswagen's New Beetle wasn't a terrible car, but it also wasn't exactly built with enthusiasts in mind. VW basically drew up a retro-inspired design and then told its engineers to figure out how to ...

Is it too early to define an automobile sold between 1992 and 1999 as a classic? In hindsight, Apple has created its own classic in the portable music player industry with the iPod, originally ...

In the lates 80s, VW's engineers faced a conundrum. The product planning department expressed the need for a compact six-cylinder engine that could be squeezed into a front-wheel-drive car.