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On Tuesday, April 5 at the New York Auto Show, a special ceremony will crown the 2023 World Car of the Year winners as voted by the World Car Awards jury. Yesterday, though, another international panel—consisting of world-renowned car designers, engineers, auto industry titans, motorsport legends, specialist journalists, broadcasters, media …

German auto giant Volkswagen on Wednesday unveiled a new budget electric vehicle, as the competition in the EV sector revs up. The ID. 2all model, with front-wheel drive and a range of up to 450 kilometres, will be priced under 25,000 euros (about $36,477 CAD) when the production model hits …

While larger vehicles tend to fare better in collisions with smaller vehicles, they still have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to protecting their occupants. As we reported last year, a third of midsize SUVs failed the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s new side crash test, …

Volkswagen ’s search for the location of an EV battery factory in North America is over. The German automaker and its battery company PowerCo today announced the selection of St. Thomas in Ontario to establish Volkswagen’s first overseas gigafactory for battery manufacturing. The start of production is planned for 2027.

Volkswagen came to the Chicago Auto Show this week to introduce the 2024 Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport . The Car Guide was on hand at McCormick Place to see from up close how the German automaker’s midsize SUV has changed. To be clear, this is still the first-generation Atlas …

U.S. magazine Consumer Reports has once again published a list of vehicles owners like the most. The results are from the 2022 Annual Auto Surveys, involving more than 300,000 vehicles from the 2020-2022 model years, as well as some 2023 models. The team used criteria like price, performance, reliability, comfort, …

Volkswagen has announced a new recall on the ID.4 electric crossover due to the risk of a fire caused by the battery—not the high-voltage unit feeding the motors but rather the 12V battery. The good news is that only a small number of units are affected including just over a …

As promised, Volkswagen yesterday introduced a large electric sedan at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. Called ID.7 and based on the automaker’s MEB architecture, it’s derived from the ID. Aero concept we saw last year. For some reason the car was sporting camouflage—the actual production model will be …

Volkswagen today announced that it will introduce the newest member of its all-electric family on January 3rd at 4 pm PT and follow with a display at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. The German automaker didn’t provide a lot of details, but we know that the vehicle will still be …

Volkswagen today got one step closer to establishing a future EV battery plant in Canada. CEO Oliver Blume and the Canadian Minister for Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, signed an Addendum to the non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of August this year to identify suitable sites for a cell …