Volkswagen Race Touareg 3

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 -  A desert racer and Price is less. This is VW’s Race Touareg 3 concept, based on the endurance monster that took the top three places in this year’s Dakar rally - the two-week race that’s now run across Argentina and Chile’s roughest landscapes. And as you’ve probably guessed, this isn’t some regular showroom-spec Touareg with the body of a real Dakar winner. This is a real Dakar winner, albeit a slightly cosier one, reformatted for us regular civvies.

The 2012 Volkswagen Touareg is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by German automaker Volkswagen since 2002. It was the third sport utility vehicle from the automaker, after the much older Volkswagen 181 "Kurierwagen", and the Iltis (later produced by Bombardier). One even holds the world record for the heaviest load towed by a passenger car, pulling a Boeing 747 as part of an advertising campaign.

Some concept cars merely glisten in the pinpoint spotlights, others could handle serious business if only some auto exec would get drunk enough to let it loose. Volkswagen's Race Touareg 3 Qatar concept is the latter, minus the drunk exec.

VW calls the Race Touareg 3 Qatar concept a genuine rally motorsport vehicle, much like its entry in the Dakar Rally earlier this month. It's street legal and can get from 0-62 in under six seconds. It's clad in 18" BBS wheels and painted in a goldish white "Magic Morning," which as far as we know is not a euphemism.

It accelerates to 62 mph in 6.1 seconds before reaching a top speed of 117 mph.

The 2011 Dakar-winning Race Touareg is powered by a 2.5-liter TDI producing 296 hp and 442 lb.-ft, sent through three limited-slip diffs via a 5-speed sequential gearbox and a ZF-Sachs three-plate ceramic clutch. Presumably, the concept has that going on as well.

2012 Volkswagen Jetta Reviews

2012 Volkswagen Jetta Reviews - The right place for 2012 Volkswagen Jetta price performance review, all sorts of Volkswagen Jetta info, as well as frequently updated 2012 Volkswagen Jetta pictures. Perpetuating the standards of excellence it established long ago, the Jetta continues to be Volkswagen’s most popular car. The new and improved 2012 Volkswagen Jetta is no exception. The Jetta GL, GLS, GLI, and Jetta GLX are all new for 2012. 2012 Volkswagen Jetta is in its way for making and showing it to global market, there will be changes made from previous versions and they are in the making of those changes. So estimations and expectations of this Jetta model is going around very fast and recently some snaps of this latest Volkswagen are out and it is in disguised form so limit to some estimations only.

A 5-year, 60,000-mile warranty, as well as a host of other features and amenities come standard with Volkswagen’s four models. the 2011 Volkswagen Jetta will be launched this October with a naturally aspirated 2.0-liter four-cylinder, a 2.5-liter five, and a 2.0-liter turbo-diesel, our favorite version will not be far behind. The GLI, which features a turbocharged 2.0-liter and a far sportier suspension setup, will be at dealers early next year. We drove a prototype of the Euro-market Jetta 2.0 TSI, which is identical to the forthcoming GLI except for its cosmetics.

As in its other applications, the turbocharged 2.0 serves up 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque, the latter from 1700 to 5000 rpm. Turbo lag is kept to a minimum, and there is instant throttle response throughout the power band. The TSI engine produces a muted snarl that should become far more prominent in production cars than in the preproduction model we drove, thanks to a sound generator that will spice up the soundtrack.

2012 Volkswagen Golf Review

2012 Volkswagen Golf Review - Volkswagen’s MkVI Golf  has been on sale for less than a year (in most parts of the globe) but development on the next-generation of the popular compact is already well underway in Germany.

Recently we saw spy shots depicting the first test-mules of the MkVII Golf, which revealed that it will come with a wider stance than the current model. We now have an image of a semi-complete clay model of the upcoming car, which was accidentally captured on an official Volkswagen promo video for the recently revealed L1 concept car.

Volkswagen has since edited the video to remove the leak but thanks to the guys at Auto Motor und Sport we have this screen shot of the clay model. The design shows clear links to the new Scirocco and Polo, with a pronounced front end and narrow headlights.

As the most powerful small car ever offered by Volkswagen, the 2012 VW Golf R has a dual purpose in appealing to previous owners of the previous Golf R32 and to bring new visibility to the R line of performance vehicles.

2012 Volkswagen Golf R

Q&A for the R: The Fastest, Most powerful Golf to date, with All-Wheel Drive to Boot. But is it Enough?

According to the same papers, Volkswagen is expecting to sell less than 1.6 million units of the MkVI. The MkV, which first went on sale in 2003, managed to rack up more than 2.3 million sales.