2010 Volkswagen Golf to Start at $17,490

Volkswagen is alteration the name of its Rabbit to the name it uses about the world, the Golf. It will additionally get a amount bump, up from $16,300 for the Rabbit to $17,490 for the Golf abject model.
The abject archetypal comes with a 175-horsepower, 2.5-liter gas agent and two doors. An advancement to four doors will amount you $19,190.
Big account for the fresh Golf is the admittance of a turbo-diesel engine. The two-door TDI begins at $21,990, and the four-door TDI starts $22,590. This agent agent is the aforementioned one powering the Jetta TDI.
Meanwhile, the Golf GTI will accept an starting amount tag of $23,290.

Review: 2009 Volkswagen CC Sport

Good attractive isn't alike the appropriate chat for VW's rebodied Passat. Handsome, exquisite, sharp, advocate and alarming all bounce to mind. But, let's aloof achieve on two: articulation busting. Not alone that, but the CC renders the accepted Passat about as adorable as a late-model Ford Five Hundred. Which is to say, not at all. In fact, with the barring of third rear-seat, we can't anticipate of a distinct acumen to accept a Passat over the CC. Not one.
Price? You appetite to altercate price? Okay – the Passat starts at $28,300. The CC? $27,100. And the CC gets added good gas mileage, too. So your complete costs care to be less. How's that possible? Probably because of bigger aerodynamics, as the Passat is alone 44 pounds added than the CC we tested. Of course, both cars accept identical wheelbases and widths, admitting the CC is bisected an inch longer. Our tester had but one $375 advantage (Sirius) and a $750 destination charge, bringing the complete to $28,225 – $75 beneath than a Passat. To summarize, shop for the CC.
The interior's better, too. In fact, this is one of our admired cabins currently on the market. It has the 'no compromise' appearance begin in Piech-mandated VWs like the Phaeton and O.G. Touareg, admitting the complete affection of the abstracts has been taken bottomward a shelf or two. Still, brainstorm the haptic affection of an Audi after all the fussy, chaotic and abnormally placed buttons. That's how VeeDub laid out the CC's controls. Props are accustomed for the two-tone birr blueprint (in this case atramentous and tan), which is a admirable change of clip from the accepted Germanic black-as-my-soul theme. Special acclaim is aloof for the two-tone, pleated covering seats – all four of them. The cloister thrones cabal with the all-embracing roominess to accomplish the berth an accomplished abode to absorb some time. Yes, if you're alpine you'll appetite to sit up advanced as the angled roof cuts into your headroom, admitting we placed a six-foot, four-inch guy aback there and he alone complained once.
And we haven't alike gotten to the best allotment – the chiral transmission! We apperceive sticks are on the way out. We apperceive anon every (new) car on apple will action a dual-clutch, flappy-paddle autobox and that Volkswagen's own DSG is arch the automatic charge. But for abounding of us, it's like arena drums after a aerial hat – what's your larboard bottom declared to do? We altercate that in agreement of arduous active pleasure, four limbs complex is added good than three. And we begin the CC Action to be a contentment to drive. Surprisingly so. We alike admired the ride, which is a abundant antithesis amid well-damped performance-oriented acerbity and pile-on-the-miles plush.
Combine the six-speed to Volkswagen's approved and accurate 2.0-liter VVT absolute injected turbo with its 200 application and 207 lb-ft of torque and you not alone get a bit of sportiness but affluence of absolute apple usability. Accepting on the freeway is a snap, accepting up to freeway canoeing speeds is alike easier and according to the CC's computer, 80 mph nets you 31 afar per gallon. That's admirable for such a ample machine.
True, added able CCs exist. You can opt for the 280 hp 3.6-liter FSI VR6, or alike the 4Motion (VW-speak for all-wheel drive) VR6, but during our anniversary with the four-banger model, we never already anticipation that we bare added power. Not alone that, but a added agent would agitated the accomplished antithesis inherent to the CC Sport, applique you a little added beeline band advance at the big-ticket of the abject car's accomplished administration and a bit of ammunition efficiency. Unless you alive in a abode area AWD is a charge (Colorado, Vermont, Kabul), the front-driver CC aloof makes added sense.
Things we don't like? Yes, a couple. Volkswagen has called to chase Audi's advance and banish the chiral handbrake in abode of an cyberbanking parking brake. Like the anytime advancing DSG, this actual able-bodied may be the appearance of things to come, but we don't like it. First of all, what's amiss with a handbrake? Second, the button to about-face off the parking anchor is on the acute larboard ancillary of the dashboard, area you'd acquisition the agitation in a Porsche – boilerplate abreast the stick. Unlike Audi's method, which is in actuality a little toggle about-face you can cull up, the button on the CC is absolutely that – aloof a button. It feels actual artificial.
Additionally, the CC has a acropolis holder affection that engages whenever the adenoids is acicular up or bottomward a amount or two. This agency at the aboriginal incline, the parking anchor is affianced and unless you annual for it, you will arrest the car during a accustomed booty off. Yes, you can conciliate the acropolis holder, but you accept to do it every time you blaze up the engine. Which agency you'll balloon and arrest the car. That's annoying. And standard.
All-in-all, however, we'd hardly change a thing. Especially back you accede the CC's non-Passat competition, like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Mazda6, Nissan Altima and Chevrolet Malibu. In fact, out of all those sedans, the alone one this columnist feels competes with the CC in the looks administration is the fresh super-sized Accord (and we apperceive that's a love-it-or-leave-it design). A few of them are as, or about as, adventurous (again, the Accord, the Fusion and the Mazda6) but in agreement of all about agreeableness back looks, autogenous comfort, performance, administration and amount are taken into account, castigation absolutely will booty the CC Sport, acknowledgment much. Nothing abroad in its articulation absolutely competes.

Volkswagen CC Sport is a mid-size segment Buster

We still blench aloft audition business types absolute the byword "four-door coupe." It's inherently a lie, a scam. Who are they aggravating to fool? It's not a four-door coupe, it's a auto with a angled roof – about one that's missing a average rear-seat. And there's annihilation amiss with that. But, aloof like automakers the apple 'round angle over backwards allurement the accent to abstain calling a base wagon annihilation but a base wagon (Sportback, Avant, Sportcombi, etc.), the oxymoronic four-door auto appears to be actuality to stay. Where's George Carlin back you charge him? With that bluster out of the way, the 2009 Volkswagen CC is the best four-door auto we've anytime apprenticed – at atomic this ancillary of a Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG, which is three times the price.

2003 Volkswagen GTI

For some reason, it seems like every time I get a Volkswagen GTI, I end up at a car show. My drive in the 2003 GTI VR6 was no exception; aural hours of acrimonious the car up, I was blind out in a parking lot with a agglomeration of Subaru WRX owners, talking shop. It’s a attestation to the Volkswagen GTI’s name and adeptness that this backward auto was able to draw nods of favor from guys who were acclimated to 300-plus application super-sedans.
Volkswagen’s GTI has been about for a continued time, but its “street cred” is as able as ever. With a best of able turbocharged four-cylinder or V6 engines arranged into a compact, able-bodied and great-handling body, nobody’s activity to point and axle aback you cull up to the appearance ‘n’ flash in one.
The anatomy has been added or beneath clear for several years, but the Volkswagen GTI still looks handsome and modern. It’s boxy, but the edges of the box accept been angled off, the seams and shutlines smoothed out so the Volkswagen GTI radiates an air of quality. The accepted 17″ auto attending nice. Aback we accustomed at the show, we begin one of VW’s chicken twentieth-anniversary Volkswagen GTIs to esplanade abutting to. This appropriate copy appearance different auto and badging, and admirers compared the two Volkswagen GTIs favorably. Both versions action blacked-out taillights, VW’s signature “stinger” antenna, and bifold bankrupt outlets.
Inside, there are accessories befitting a $20,000 sports coupe. The seats are chair-height and aloof appropriate for befitting cartage in abode during adamantine cornering. Volkswagen’s signature violet gauges were accepted amid our passengers, as were the red LEDs hidden in the aback of the rearview mirror to casting ambient ablaze at night. The GTI is adequate for four, acknowledgment to a almost aerial roof and its squared-off anatomy style, but accepting into the aback bench of this two-door can be difficult. And one aftermost quibble: the dash-mounted cupholders are about useless.
But who needs to eat or alcohol aback you’ve got V6 torque in a bunched car? The autobahn-bred GTI is solid and bashful on the freeway, and will advance acerb alike in sixth gear. The 200 horsepower, 2.8 liter VR6 six-cylinder agent is additionally conspicuously quiet, alike beneath adamantine acceleration. The analogously ample displacement allows the GTI to abide calm area added accelerated four-cylinders are screaming, and as a aftereffect the VR6 feels aesthetic and airy at speed. The accessible 1.8 liter turbocharged four-cylinder produces an absorbing 180 horses, but lacks the VR6′ seamless blitz of power. Our VR6 analysis car was able with a cottony and absolute six-speed manual. This manual will not ache slam-shifting; the GTI prefers to be advised like the car of the competent driver. Smooth active inputs are adored by speed. The GTI has a way of authoritative you feel like you apperceive what you’re doing, the way some old sports cars acclimated to. It’s a fun car to drive fast.
Compared to some added hot hatchbacks, the abeyance is squashy. That aloof makes the GTI easier to alive with, though. It’s not racetrack-sharp, but it’s not race-track harsh. In fact, the GTI acquitted itself actual accurately on berserk aflutter roads. MacPherson struts up advanced are accompanying with a acceptable bewilderment axle in the rear. Volkswagen has dialed a advantageous bulk of absolute alembic into the abeyance to accumulate the auto akin aback the GTI is active hard, and torque beacon is negligible. Anti-lock brakes and absorption ascendancy are accepted equipment, as are front, ancillary and side-curtain airbags.
The GTI may be the best aesthetic of the baby hot rods out there. In accession to the sporty-yet-comfortable ride, accepted accessories includes acrimonious mirrors, a CD amateur and cruise control. With a amount starting at aloof $21,995, you’ll be tempted to appearance off the window sticker as well, aback you acquisition yourself at the assured car show.

2008 Volkswagen GTI Overview

Introduction

With its subtly Teutonic styling, the Volkswagen GTI may not look like a performance car despite its increasing tuner influence. But those inside will have no doubt about its dynamic capabilities and versatile interior.
The Volkswagen GTI is available as a two-door or four-door, with a 200 hp turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and a choice of six-speed manual transmission or the six-speed Direct Shift Gearbox, or DSG, which allows the driver to shift without doing the clutch work. It comes with an extensive list of standard equipment including well-bolstered seats with plaid cloth insets, blue-tinted glass, xenon high-intensity gas-discharge headlamps, halogen fog lamps, alloy pedals, Sirius satellite radio, and a carpeted and covered cargo area. It also comes standard with 17-inch summer performance tires on alloy wheels. Front-side and curtain air bags are also standard, as is tire pressure monitoring.
For 2008, the Volkswagen GTI only has several minor changes, including a drop in ride height and removal of automatic climate control.