Why did Volkswagen make Harlequin cars? The multicoloured Polo began as a promotional demonstration of Volkswagen’s modular ordering system. Customers wanted the display cars, prompting the Polo
A flower vase seems like an unlikely thing to find beside a car’s speedometer. It cannot tell you whether the engine is overheating, help you find your way home or hold a takeaway coffee. Yet a
Park a 1940s Jeep beside a Chevrolet sedan, an early Volkswagen Beetle and a British roadster, then look closely at their headlights. The surrounding bodies could hardly be more different. The glass c
Volkswagen leaving Volkswagen sounds like a joke somebody makes halfway through a bad business-school case study. But the fact that people are even asking the question tells you how strange t
Have you noticed how some cars carry a name for years, but every now and then something reminds you where it all started? Volkswagen seems to be doing exactly that with the Golf R. It’s headi
Some cars are remembered for their engines. Others for their shape. But every now and then, it is the wheels that people never forget. Car design is funny like that. You can have a beautiful body,
Headlines about electric vehicle owner satisfaction and failure rates certainly catch our eye sending us into a research frenzy about what cars are actually the most reliable and not just glazed in hi
The economy's looking pretty rough right now. Gas prices keep climbing, trade wars are jacking up costs for everyone, and a huge chunk of U.S. GDP is sitting in a bubble that could pop any second.
Parking hasn't really changed in over a century. The goal is still the same: don't hit anything. Self-parking technology promised to fix that by taking human error out of the equation. And if
If you think scraping your windshield in 10°F feels like suffering, just wait until you hear how early drivers tried to stay warm before car heaters existed. Let’s just say… it wasn&r