Volkswagen Group's goal of becoming the world's most sustainable automaker by 2018 means that the company is hard at work developing new powertrain technologies meant to increase performance and ...

Volkswagen has announced that its latest line of four-cylinder diesel engines are approved to use paraffinic diesel fuel. The automaker says using the fuel can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 95 percent ...

Passenger cars with diesel engines never really took off in North America. Low gas prices certainly played a big role in that ...

Volkswagen still offers TDI engines in European models, including the Multivan, which is also offered with gasoline and hybrid powerplants. VW phased out diesel engines in the US and Canada after the ...

The Wards Auto Best Engine awards are revered by many in the North American automotive industry. It began in 1995 to showcase the cutting-edge and noteworthy technology developed by powertrain ...

Volkswagen has apparently switched its strategy regarding small displacement diesel engines in the Polo and its similarly sized models. The initial plan involved a family of 1.5-liter engines that ...

Ian Wright joined CarBuzz as an automotive journalist and photographer in 2018. His career started with specialist publications, covering everything from Harley-Davidson to Ferrari. Before writing for ...

Remember the month of September 2015? That’s when the Environmental Protection Agency opened an investigation into Volkswagen for using illegal software in turbo diesel-engined vehicles. The ...

How far can you go on a tank of gas? Perhaps 250 miles? 350? 400? Two weeks ago, I went 525 miles with just a 14.5-gallon tank. Yes, the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen TDI is an impressive car. It ...

A US federal judge has finally approved a record high settlement for the Volkswagen emissions scandal, with the German automaker to spend $14.7 billion remedying the situation. More than 400,000 ...

The VW diesel scandal began with a bang on September 18, 2015. On exactly the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its ...

Volkswagen has unveiled the cleanest ever TDI engine. First test drives demonstrate the high potential of Volkswagen technologies, which consequently reduce nitrogen oxide. In the Jetta a new ...