Volkswagen is planning to drop the idea to collaborate with Porsche SE, who intends to grab the sports car segment alone.

The new chief of Volkswagen's U. S. operations, Jonathan Browning, received a tall order from the automaker's corporate authorities in Wolfsburg, Germany: He got the directive of starting selling as many as eight hundred thousand Volkswagens yearly by the year of 2018.

The figure reflects more than thrice the numbers of sales it did in the last year.

According to vehicle valuation specialist Glass's Guide, the residual value chart for the year 2010 has a surprise winner - with the Volkswagen Tiguan emerging right at the top of the table.

Volkswagen’s seventh generation Passat, which had been launched, last month at the Paris Motor Show is now available for booking. The prices have been revealed which begin from £18,470 for the saloon and £19,745 for the estate.

Automaker, Volkswagen AG has announced that it has made a new person head of its US operations. Jonathan Browning is 51 years old and was earlier involved with General Motors as a sales executives.

Volkswagen AG announced on Tuesday that it is going to purchase a 90.1% stake in Italian car designer Italdesign-Giugiaro SpA. It added that this will be done under a global expansion plan.

Chief Executive, Martin Winterkorn said that the Company is sure that its car designs will be in safe hands after the acquisition.

Volkswagen has launched its new in diesel engine range. It is a 1.2-litre three-cylinder TDI. This car was paraded at the recent 31st International Vienna Motor Symposium. The European customers would be receiving the latest Polo Bluemotion this month.

It is said that in 1976, Volkswagen nearly invented the hot hatch with its first Golf GTi, but in spite of its frisky nature it wasn't really sufficient. VW then recreated the hot hatch as a V6 with the Golf VR6 and the following Golf R32 which was still not sufficient.

The 2011 Volkswagen Touran 7-seater MPV gets its second facelift since 2003. This 'new' model will make its first appearance at the Leipzig Motor Show in Germany.

On the external side, the revamped Touran has been given a styling motivated by new Golf and Polo.

There is good news for all Volkswagen fans. It has been revealed that the Volkswagen Passat CC has been refurbished to make room for five people. The car has also been equipped with new and more equipment compared to the standard model of the Passat.

Now five people can be accommodated in the car. This has been made possible with the inclusion of the middle rear seat.