25 Sep 2016, 08:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This Superb is amazingly powerful for a Skoda with a stock engine. But reaching the output of the S4 is only half the battle
12 Sep 2016, 16:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We know that a horse can cost tens of times more than this Sharan. But isn't 44,000 euros too much for such an old tourer
5 Sep 2016, 19:30 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, a former head of Bentley and the lead of the transmissions department, has sued Volkswagen over patent royalty fees regarding DSG tech
25 Jul 2016, 23:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It's not slow, but the takeoff is not as amazing as the horsepower and torque numbers would lead you to believe. Plus, why to go fast in a Volkswagen CUV?
29 Jun 2016, 23:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Some people say that CVTs are ore economical than DSGs and that normal automatics are smoother. Well, the double clutch was always supposed to be in the middle
22 Jun 2016, 17:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The novelty value of the Audi TT is gone, but this is still the only affordable coupe with a digital dash. To buy that, you might have to get the cheaper 1.8
27 May 2016, 00:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Almost all Volkswagens have DSG gearbox options, but they aren't the same. The 1.8 TSI engine secretly has two of them, depending on the configuration
26 Feb 2016, 22:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Caddy is available with a 1.4 TGI engine making 110 PS and a six-speed DSG gearbox. The gas tanks are mounted under the floor and don't take up any space
7 Dec 2015, 12:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Once viewed as the gearbox of the future, the DCT is losing ground to conventional automatics now that 8- and 9-speed units have arrived
21 Sep 2015, 11:10 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Volkswagen is taking a timeout from the transmission battle and puts the 10-speed DSG project on hold. Still, it needs to find solutions to replace it
2 Feb 2015, 14:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Golf R-Line is a special trim level costing £24,190 in Britain and available with 150 horsepower engines that will get you to 62 mph in over 8 seconds.
2 Feb 2015, 11:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This 300 horsepower super-wagon costs almost as much as a base model Porsche Boxster, but it comes with all the bells and whistles
30 Jan 2015, 12:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / 2015 Volkswagen Passat has just received two new turbocharged petrol engines, a 1.8 with 180 hp and the 220 hp 2.0 from the Golf GTI.
16 Jan 2015, 12:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Today, SEAT UK's marketing team was busy announcing the all-new Leon ST Cupra 280, a car that's pretty much unlike anything else in the segment… or better. We already know what this...
2 Dec 2014, 14:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Almost everybody in Europe knows that Volkswagen Group has four compact models based on the MQB platform. There's the Audi A3, the Golf 7, SEAT Leon and Skoda Octavia. All come in a multitude o...
27 Nov 2014, 13:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We really wouldn't buy a compact SUV any more, not when the latest generations of crossover estates are so much more dynamic and better to look at. Volkswagen Group has three of them built on t...
21 Nov 2014, 11:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A Golf estate has never been something to lose your head over… until this week, when Volkswagen officially took the wraps off the all-new Golf R Variant at the Los Angeles Auto Show. By combi...
19 Nov 2014, 15:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen of America has just announced that the all-new Golf R hot hatch will arrive in dealerships for the price of $36,595 plus $820 for the destination. This statement was made from the sidelin...
18 Nov 2014, 13:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / After many months of testing at the Nurburgring, Volkswagen is now ready to reveal the fastest Golf estate ever. It's called the Golf R Variant and comes with everything a normal Golf R does, o...
14 Nov 2014, 17:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last year, we took an in-depth look at the Volkswagen Group's TSI engine family and how it was helping the German company and its sister brands achieve their goals. The guide got a lot of atten...