Volkswagen

Lifestyle / 29 May 2018

Hot wheels: this month’s outstanding saloons, supercars and SUVs

May was a busy month in the automobile industry, with marques far and wide launching refreshed models from well-loved lines, as well as especially eye-catching one-off releases. Stylish saloons, stoic SUVs, nimble urban navigators and stealthy supercars captured our attention at Wallpaper*...

Lifestyle / 18 May 2018

Small and peppy, Volkswagen GTI Up keeps the spirit of driving alive

There’s a compelling argument for automotive downsizing. Roads aren’t getting any bigger, vehicles are more numerous and bigger equates to more pollution and emissions, let alone the sheer amount space taken up by monstrous SUVs. VW doesn’t exactly have a squeaky...

Lifestyle / 19 Mar 2018

Germany is leading the charge to create the world’s most innovative supercar

From hybrid supercars to hi-tech campervans, Germany is pushing auto innovation into top gear. Think AI dashboards, pure electric ideals and cult concept hits. Here’s all you need to know about the very best in German motor manufacturing and design...

Lifestyle / 2 Feb 2018

Volkswagen Arteon is confident, handsome and anonymously stylish

Volkswagen’s decision to push itself up market never quite struck a chord with the car-buying public. The fabulously over-engineered Phaeton from 2002 remains an iconic piece of luxury design, but despite being just as capable as its rivals, the car...

Lifestyle / 25 Apr 2017

Bahn storming: Germany’s industrial landscapes are still shaped by the automobile

The country’s big players are racing to stay ahead of the pack

Lifestyle / 7 Nov 2016

Thinking small: tracing Volkswagen’s rebellious streak

It’s hard to remember when car adverts were a treasury of wit, simplicity and concision. David Ogilvy’s legendary penmanship for Rolls-Royce remains the gold standard of ad copy, but for sheer consistency of vision, snappy one liners and unambiguous graphics...

Lifestyle / 5 Apr 2016

Hybrid economy: the Volkswagen Golf GTE and R Estate

No one can deny that Volkswagen is home to some of the world’s most talented engineers. Unfortunately, it was an engineering decision that saw the company spend much of 2015 at the intersection of politics, consumer rights and legal shenanigans...

Lifestyle / 19 Feb 2016

Snowmobile: we take the new VW Tiguan for a spin in Lapland

We are in the heart of Swedish Lapland about to test a pre-production Tiguan. Volkswagen technical experts are at hand, eager to guide us through the capabilities of this compact SUV. The four-wheel-drive boasts pretty decent off-road capabilities that, we...

Lifestyle / 29 Sep 2015

Frankfurt Motor Show 2015: a wealth of automotive gems despite industry woes

The biennial Frankfurt show is traditionally a time for German carmakers to flex their muscles. So it was an unfortunate turn of events when BMW’s new chief executive Harald Krüger collapsed from what is said to be exhaustion as he delivered...

Lifestyle / 6 Oct 2014

Volkswagen’s new Golf GTI is the quintessential all-rounder

Can we call the Golf GTI a classic? In all its iterations – and there have been seven – the Golf has never exactly set the design world on fire. Intended from the outset as a replacement for the cultish...

Lifestyle / 17 Feb 2014

Volkswagen charges up its new electric car e-Up

The original Volkswagen Up was conceived as the archetypal city car, designed to appeal to drivers from London to Delhi and São Paulo. Clever packaging allows for a relatively roomy cabin with space for four adults despite a tiny footprint...

Lifestyle / 14 Aug 2013

Wallpaper* test drives the VW XL1

No-one can accuse the VW XL1 of being ’just another car’. Looking like a tiny road-going spaceship, the aerodynamically-optimised plug-in hybrid eco supercar offers a world-beating 313mpg, is production-ready and goes on sale later this year for circa £50,000...