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Golf GTI gets 173kW
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Golf GTI gets 173kW

Volkswagen is celebrating 35 years since the birth of its iconic Golf GTI with a special “Edition 35” series of Mark VI hatches

Golf GTI Edition 35 coming to Oz
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Golf GTI Edition 35 coming to Oz

New details have emerged for Volkswagen’s very special Golf GTI Edition 35, the latest in a line of tuned commemorative models

20 modern retro styled cars
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Retromania: 20 modern retro-styled cars

Ever get that sense of deja vu? That you’ve seen it all before? In the world of car design, the clock is turning back once again to a bygone age of style. Here are 20 slices of thoroughly modern retro.

Question marks over Skoda pricing
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Question marks over Skoda pricing

Skoda is known as the VW Group’s value brand, yet this week the Fabia hatch launches in Australia with a price and equipment equation that is inferior to the equivalent Volkswagen Polo.

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“I crush you like a Bug…”

Not an ’80s movie quote, but a faulty switch on Volkswagen’s latest Beetle that could literally have heads rolling in America.

Car prices going down
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Car prices going down

Smart shoppers know that the best deals on new cars emerge before and after January 1. In less than a month’s time, anything built in 2011 will be immediately deemed, like, so last year. Literally.

Polo GTI to feature manual gearbox
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Manual for next Polo GTI

VW to offer lower-priced Polo GTI with a manual gearbox in 2015

WIN Wheels Car of the Year
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WIN Wheels Car of the Year

Wheels is giving away a Volkswagen Golf GTI, the 2013 Wheels Car of the Year

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Atkinson returns to WRC

Australian rally star Chris Atkinson is returning to the World Rally Championship with Hyundai.

Volkswagen has just ripped the covers of its new flagship hot hatch – the Golf R.
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VW Golf R: hot hatch gets supercar performance

Volkswagen has just ripped the covers of its new flagship hot hatch – the Golf R.

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KISS Bug is ebay gold!

This outrageous 1970 VW Beetle was built as a radio station promo vehicle in the USA, and is currently up for auction on ebay.

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The new ‘bloke-ier’ Beetle

Remember Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris? Evidently VW doesn’t.

When cars and guitars collide
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When cars and guitars collide

Many guitar amps come with wheels, though not usually of the alloy variety. But that’s all changed with the new Volkswagen Beetle Fender Edition.

Volkswagen confirms the Scirocco R Sports
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Volkswagen confirms the Scirocco R Sports

Volkswagen has officially confirmed the Scirocco R sports coupe’s arrival in Australia early in 2012

Hot VW coupe to blow in
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Wheels: Hot VW coupe to blow in

Golf R grunt in a svelte three-door, four-seat coupe package – that’s the Scirocco R, due here late this year and priced from $47,490.

Volkswagen Beetle
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New 2011 Volkswagen Beetle

New 2011 Volkswagen Beetle

VW Scirocco circles the 'Ring
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VW Scirocco circles the ‘Ring

The new GT24 petrol and gas powered Sciroccos have completed testing for the Nurburgring 24 Hour with class-leading results.

Virtual Golf
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Virtual Golf GTI

Take a to-scale model of the MkVI GTI for a virtual spin, and be transported back to your slot car days.