Volkswagen Golf News
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With the formal nod of Volkswagen’s board on Friday, Volkswagen is embarking upon a five-year, $50 billion all-in push to develop a new generation of electric cars, plus complementary autonomous-drive technologies and mobility services. As Volkswagen works toward a viable, global, mass-market business, and millions of vehicles built around its modular electric architecture (MEB), it faces the biggest change since moving from air-cooled rear-wheel-drive vehicles to water-cooled (primarily) front-wheel-drive ones decades ago—and arguably a bigger one. DON’T MISS: VW e-Golf in...
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VW e-Golf in very short supply as company prepares for ID Crozz electric car
As VW gears up to begin selling its new ID line of electric cars, supplies of its existing electric car, the e-Golf have dropped to just 10 cars nationwide, according to our partners at Cars Direct. Inventories that low usually mean that cars are being discontinued, but Volkswagen said the model...
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2017 Volkswagen e-Golf: first drive of updated 125-mile electric car
The 2017 Volkswagen e-Golf, the only battery-electric car sold by VW in the U.S., got a large range boost for its third year on the market. While the current model year is winding to a close, 2017 e-Golfs are just now reaching dealers in the handful of states where the compact electric car is...
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Past Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners: the recap
On Monday, Green Car Reports will name its 2017 Best Car To Buy. It will be the seventh time we've given the award, and it's worth looking back to see how far green cars have progressed in those seven years. We were lucky to start the award in 2011, the year two remarkable cars arrived on global...
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Volkswagen e-Golf: real-world range vs. EPA estimates over six-month test
The reality of range—reproducible, real-world daily-driving range—is one of the most important concepts you have to become familiar with if you’re new to electric vehicles. Generally speaking, the faster you drive, the quicker you accelerate, and the more accessories (like climate...
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2017 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack wagon debuts for NY Auto Show
The 2017 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack will appear at the 2016 New York Auto Show, one year after it was first shown.
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If you drive a Tesla Model S or a Nissan Leaf, then a certain image follows: Plain and simple, you’re an electric-vehicle early adopter. Just as the Toyota Prius has always shouted out that you’re in a environmentally sound, very fuel-efficient hybrid, these models push your decision to go all-electric out front and center. But for the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf that’s been our long-term test car, it’s a bit different. The e-Golf is a stealth EV; it blends right in with other Golf models—which, we’ve found, is a mixed bag. ALSO SEE: Custom Tesla Model X Thanks...
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2015 VW Golf SportWagen: Lease On TDI Better Than Gasoline Version
Despite different MSRPs, base versions of the gasoline and diesel 2015 Golf SportWagen cost about the same to lease.
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2015 Volkswagen e-Golf Electric Car Gets Less Expensive Trim Level
When pricing for the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf electric car was announced last August, only one trim level was available, a lavishly equipped top-of-the-range package. Now VW has supplemented that SEL Premium version of the e-Golf with a new, less expensive model called the Limited Edition, at a price...
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2015 Volkswagen Golf Named North American Car Of The Year
The 2015 Volkswagen Golf and 2015 Ford F-150 take home North American Car and Truck of the Year honors, respectively.
Stephen Edelstein -
2015 Volkswagen Golf: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2015
Our Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways here on Green Car Reports. Sometimes it goes to a moonshot car, like the first Nissan Leaf (in 2011) or the Tesla Model S (in 2013). Those are cars that radically redefined what green transportation could be, changing the auto industry forever...
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Which Car Did Readers Say Should Win The Best Car To Buy 2015 Award?
Tomorrow morning, we'll be revealing the winner of our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2015 award. But as we wrote about each nominee over the last week, we also polled our readers to find out which of the five contenders they felt was most deserving of the award. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports'...
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The fifth and final of our five nominees for Green Car Reports' 2015 Best Car To Buy award is the new 2015 Volkswagen Golf range. It's a completely new, top-to-bottom makeover of the classic compact five-door hathback, now in its seventh generation since launching in 1974. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports' 2015 Best Car To Buy: The Nominees (Video) The lineup sold in the U.S. includes a pair of turbocharged gasoline engines, an all-new TDI diesel engine with more power and higher fuel-economy ratings. The 2015 Volkswagen Golf range also includes the e-Golf, the first plug-in electric car VW has...
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First 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf Delivery On Friday; Auction Proceeds To Charity
The electric-car sales figures for October showed that one single 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf was delivered to a buyer last month,--even though the car hasn't yet arrived at the VW dealers that will initially offer it. But that single electric Golf hatchback turns out to be a special case. DON'T MISS...
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Which Car Should Be Named Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2015? (Poll)
New-car ratings, driving impressions, and a lot of lengthy discussions go into picking our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy award winner each year. We explained our process yesterday, along with all of our nominees for the 2015 award, but this year we thought we'd add a new element. DON'T MISS...
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Green Car Reports' 2015 Best Car To Buy: The Nominees (Video)
It's time once more for our annual Best Car To Buy award. It's the fifth time we've chosen the one car or lineup, newly introduced for this model year, that represents the best new green car to enter the market. To qualify, a car must be all-new or substantially updated from the previous model...
John Voelcker -
Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock Discuss VW Electric Cars In New Ad (In German)
Volkswagen goes where no one has gone before in a new ad.
Stephen Edelstein -
2015 Volkswagen e-Golf Price To Start At $36,265, Top Trim Level Only
The 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf electric car will be priced from $36,265, VW announced this morning. And the first battery-electric car ever offered in the U.S. by Volkswagen will be offered only in the very top Golf trim level, the SEL Premium model. The 2015 e-Golf goes on sale in November at selected...
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The Volkswagen XL1 is a high-technology, high-cost plug-in hybrid that, while intriguing, will do very little do directly change the automotive landscape. Like many such projects though, lessons learned from its development and status as a rolling economy experiment could help production vehicles--the next-generation Volkswagen Golf, for one. The paint is barely dry on the current generation Golf but according to Autocar, work is already underway on the next-gen car. New car development is a time-consuming process, but strict European fuel economy and CO2 targets mean the pressure really is...
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2015 Volkswagen e-Golf Vs. Golf TDI: Back-To-Back Test Drive
With the introduction of the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf late this year, VW will be the only automaker to offer (in the U.S.) both diesel and all-electric versions of the same model in the U.S. While we expected to plan a back-to-back drive of these two models at some point, we didn’t expect it to...
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2015 Volkswagen e-Golf: Quick Preview Drive Of All-Electric Hatchback
Volkswagen has bet very heavily on diesel, with its TDI models; yet it's preparing to bring its all-electric Golf, called the e-Golf, to the U.S. later this year. And we took another short drive in it this past week—this time on U.S. shores. The e-Golf, as it will be sold beginning this...
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2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI: First Drive Of All-New Diesel Hatchback
In today's American car market, 45 miles per gallon is a rare occasion, and 50 miles per gallon is pure fantasy. That's the case for nearly any vehicle that has a fuel tank and isn't a hybrid—and for many hybrids, actually. Enter the 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI, a vehicle that seems to buck...
Bengt Halvorson -
2015 Volkswagen Golf Launch Edition Priced At Under $19,000
A special Launch Edition model brings the 2015 Volkswagen Golf hatchback's base price below $19,000.
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Bad News: VW's Sporty Golf GTD Diesel May Not Be Coming To U.S.
Fans of diesel vehicles have long looked at the European market and wondered why the U.S. doesn't get all the best diesel models sold overseas. There are plenty of good reasons of course, but every so often one slips through the net--such as Volkswagen's sporty Golf GTD. Only now, it looks like...
Antony Ingram