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April 2008
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Volkswagen’s Skoda Pushing for Czech Up! City Car Facility?
From Winding Road | April 23, 2008Members within the Volkswagen group seem to be getting pretty excited about the possibilities for the rear-engined Up! city car, but none... more
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Volkswagen's results in line, reaffirms 2008 targets
From Reuters: Business News | April 23, 2008FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen, the fourth-biggest carmaker in the world that is soon to be a unit of Porsche, posted preliminary first... more
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Exotica: Bentley Brooklands
From Winding Road | April 22, 2008To its eternal credit, Bentley has managed to keep its Volkswagen masters at bay for some time, taking advantage of the company’s economies... more
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2008 Volkswagen Jetta 2.5 SE Review
From Motherproof | April 22, 2008Maybe I’m just slow on the uptake, but Volkswagens are much nicer cars than I thought. The VWs of my youth were affordable little cars for... more
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Volkswagen Launches New "Das Auto" Campaign
From Ask Patty - Automotive Advice for Women | April 22, 2008Volkswagen of America has launched a new advertising campaign called "Das Auto," which, for non-German-speakers, means "the car." The campaign... more
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Whither Volvo?
From The Truth About Cars | April 21, 2008My next door neighbor is one of those classic 'car traders.' He buys, fixes, drives, fixes, drives, fixes, etc. When the repairs finally... more
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Volkswagen Bora Debuts At Beijing Motor Show [Beijing Motor Show]
From Jalopnik | April 21, 2008After the difficult to pronounce in the local market Volkswagen Lavida premiered at the 2008 Beijing Motor Show, we thought that was going... more
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The slow-go transit system
| April 21, 2008
From Los Angeles Timesast week, I took a ride on the Green Line, the light-rail line along the 105 Freeway that connects Norwalk and Redondo Beach. Well, sort... more
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Choren industries opens BTL plant in Freiberg
From AutoblogGreen | April 20, 2008Filed under: Biodiesel, Emerging Technologies, DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, GermanyGermany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has inaugurated the... more
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eBay Auction of the Day: 1981 Cimbria SS
From Winding Road | April 18, 2008While the seller of this cool little Cimbria SS makes it emphatically clear that the car is not of the “kit” variety, it does seem to have... more
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Video Vendition: Volkswagen Scirocco Baffles Police
From Winding Road | April 18, 2008Volkswagen has launched an assortment of online videos to promote its newest member, the 2009 Scirocco. The second in the series, “Pursuit”... more
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VW Goes Old School
From Wheels | April 18, 2008In new Volkswagen commercials, a black 1964 Beetle, named Max, is the host of a daytime talk show. more
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VW Chairman wants to purchase motorcycle manufacturer
From Automobile Blog | April 17, 2008Ferdinand Piech, the chairman of Volkswagen, has expressed regrets that the German automaker did not purchase the legendary Italian motorcycle... more
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Napster founder Shawn Fanning's third act: Volkswagen pitchman...
From Valleywag | April 17, 2008For his second act, Napster founder Shawn Fanning founded a startup, Snocap, which utterly failed to change the music business. After he left... more
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First Ever Second-Generation Biofuel Plant Opens in Germany
From The Truth About Cars | April 17, 2008Find something bad to say about biofuels, and its defenders will likely simply point to second-generation biofuels as the way forward. The... more
