14 Mar 2019, 17:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It's nice to know that Top Gear still hates SUVs. Other insults include the Renault Twingo being colored like gonorrhea. Auch!
8 Sep 2016, 20:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Up!'s facelift that got revealed this springs' Geneva Motor Show will enter local production in Brazil starting next year
30 Nov 2015, 09:59 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Bernd Osterloh, the automaker’s top labor representative, says he and other members of the works council have long identified this problem
14 Aug 2015, 13:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With 134 horsepower, this little three-cyliner engine makes more power than the 2-liter in the Jetta. It will turn the little Up! into a rocket
7 Nov 2013, 12:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Big boss Martin Winterkorn is bent on making Volkswagen the biggest name in electric mobility in a few years. Besides the Porsches and Audis that have hybrid models, two VWs have been electrified an...
9 Oct 2013, 12:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The VW Up! is a city car designed by Volkswagen group together with two other models using the New Small Family (NSF) architecture. It's made in Bratislava, Slovakia, and has been relatively we...
7 Aug 2013, 13:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen seems to think that its smallest and cheapest car is so… small and cheap that you could buy one at the local newsagent. This really funny commercial just released in Britain sug...
29 Jun 2013, 13:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / German magazine Auto Bild has scooped VW’s Polo supermini. They say that small changes will be made to the car to keep it going until a replacement is ready in 2015. The report simply says ...
14 Jun 2013, 15:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen's collaboration with Fender which resulted in the creation of the Fender Beetle last year. This time, it's the smallest and cheapest VW that gets a boost to its sound system, th...
22 Feb 2013, 12:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last year, Volkswagen took the city car segment head-on, with a brand new car built in Europe, for Europe. It's called the Up!, and we'd say it's a smash hit, judging from how many ha...
2 Aug 2012, 12:40 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / VW’s British division today announced the introduction of an automated manual gearbox (ASG) for the Up! city car. The new transmission, which comes with a price of GBP595 (EUR753 or $931.5) at...
11 Jun 2012, 16:19 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / VW’s British arm has opened the order books for the five-door version of the Up!, with the vehicle adding GBP365 to the price of the three-door Up! and thus coming with a starting price of GBP...
8 May 2012, 07:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The story all over the news today is that Volkswagen is working on a pair of new crossover models to sit below the Tiguan in the range. Of course, the Germans are also developing a bigger seven-seat...
24 Nov 2011, 15:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford has the Fiesta, Fiat has the shameful 500 and even Chevrolet is getting in on the act with the 2013 Spark, but Volkswagen isn’t yet convinced that bringing subcompacts to the US market is...
24 Oct 2011, 16:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has a couple of new contenders for the market, the Up! and the new Beetle. We’ve come to expect scale model releases from the German automaker to follow shortly after the full scale...
3 Oct 2011, 13:31 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen brought over not only the full production version of the Up! city car to Frankfurt this year, but also some very interesting concept. There was that little beach buggy that looked more li...
20 Sep 2011, 09:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Here’s yet another video of teenagers doing whatever they please in order to promote the new Volkswagen Up. To convince people that going small is good, they take a bunch of specially created...
16 Sep 2011, 13:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We’re back from Frankfurt, an the first impression is that the VW Up is a great car with a lot of potential. Sure, it might only be a citycar, but the Germans clearly have big plans with it, ...
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After the up! concept unveiled in 2007, Volkswagen is now working on a new mini car, this time with even a lower fuel consumption that would be able to compete with smart models. More importantly, V...
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Dragos Rusu / Another recession move on the automotive market, this time from German giant Audi that has so far kept well away from the small city car market. But not anymore, as Auto Express has found out, the A...