The Latest Breaking News from Volkswagen

After unveiling the ID. Code concept at the 2024 Beijing Motor Show, Volkswagen continues to develop models exclusively for the Chinese market. The German brand has presented three new concepts at the 2025 Shanghai Motor Show that look like they could enter production tomorrow.

People often forget this today, but Volkswagen was among the earliest Western automakers to break into China. It launched a joint venture with the locals at SAIC in 1984, and that was the start of decades of sales and profits in what became the world's biggest car market. For its…

Tesla is facing perhaps its most pivotal moment in recent history. The automaker's sales are slipping, investor confidence is dwindling and political pressure coming from within has stained the automaker's reputation. With its first earnings call of the year coming today, Tesla has a lot to answer for. I hope…

The world's biggest auto show opens Wednesday in Shanghai, with foreign carmakers raring to show they can compete against the ultra-competitive Chinese firms that dominate the sector's new electric frontier.

Six teenage girls aged between 14 and 16 were traveling in a Volkswagen SUV that careered off the road and hit a tree in Marin County, near San Francisco

The Volkswagen Phaeton is a car you could never make again. It's a product of a very specific time and place, and the vision of the late Ferdinand Piëch, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, then chairman of VW, and a man with a flare for complicated engineering. This was a Volkswagen…

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We are just a few weeks into spring, and Ford already has a truckload of recalls in the US for 2025. From January 1 through April 18, the automaker has posted no less than 40 recalls. That includes a brake recall for 123,611 F-150s, Expeditions, and Lincoln Navigators we covered…

It's not even sold in America yet. But it still took home a major award when it showed up in America.

Caught in the middle of a deepening trade row between the United States and China, Europe’s car industry is under growing strain. The latest round of US tariffs on Chinese vehicles and components is shaking up global supply chains – and putting French and European carmakers in a tough spot.

In today’s automotive industry, carmakers can’t just stubbornly continue following their decades-old script. They have to constantly adapt by riding the wave of new technologies, or risk extinction. It seems like Volkswagen finally understands this reality, especially in its second-largest market: China. The automaker’s sales suffered a setback in China in 2024,…