Volkswagen has wasted no time making the Mk8 Golf race ready: this is the GTI GTC that will compete in Africa’s Global Touring Car championship. The German brand has previously been racing the Jetta in the series but as the Jetta is no longer built in right-hand drive, it has opted to replace it with […]
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Europe’s new car sales took a massive plunge no thanks to the restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic, as they dropped by 57 percent in May and 43 percent during the first five months of 2020. According to information shared by JATO Dynamics and registered across 27 European markets, the best-selling car last month was the […]
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The all-new 2021 VW Golf Variant – or Estate, as it’s called on certain markets – hardly wears disguise anymore, though a keen eye for detail will notice something is not right with the taillights. Volkswagen has applied stickers on the rear lights to hide their LED signature and trick people into thinking they look […]
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Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany is offering visitors the opportunity of helping build the e-Golf. Following the program dedicated to customers who have ordered an e-Golf, plant visitors can get even closer to the EV’s production process as of today. The new ‘Mach-Mit’ (German for ‘Join In’) production experience allows them to accompany the vehicles […]
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<!––> <!––> The Mk8 VW Golf is still very new but two tuning companies have collaborated to create a custom styling kit for the hatchback. The kit in question comes from Ingo Noak Tuning and Autohaus Gerken, and adds some aggression to the Golf by giving it a sporty new look that’s complemented by a lowered […]
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‘I’m sorry’ is well embedded in Volkswagen’s vocabulary, with the company having apologized a lot over these past few years, whether it was for the infamous Dieselgate scandal, making Nazi-like remarks or accusing board members of leaking confidential information. The latest apologies from the Wolfsburg brand came in the light of a racist Golf ad, […]
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VW has made some quite big changes going from the Golf Mk7 to Mk8, particularly on the interior, but the transition didn’t sit well with at least some of the owners of the previous model. We already know that the German carmaker has trouble with squashing the software bugs of the new Golf and upcoming […]
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Hertz filed for bankruptcy last month and it raised fears the rental giant could sell off hundreds of thousands of vehicles as part of the restructuring process. While that hasn’t happened yet, the company is already selling off a number of former fleet vehicles. Given all of the interest in Hertz, iSeeCars decided to find […]
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Last month, VW was forced to halt VW Golf deliveries due to a software issue. Reportedly, the problem was with the car’s ability to contact emergency services in case of an accident – a mandatory function in Europe. Now, that issue has been resolved and deliveries can finally resume, said a VW spokesman yesterday in […]
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When the all-new VW Golf went on sale in the UK back in February, customers could choose between two 1.5-liter gasoline engines and two 2.0-liter TDI diesels, plus a 1.5 eTSI mild-hybrid drivetrain later on. Now there’s a new entry-level engine in the form of a three-cylinder 1.0-liter TSI with 110 PS (108 HP), mated […]
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