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The first Volkswagen Scirocco R Cup is off to a great 2011 season with rookie Mateusz Lisowski taking the checkered flag on Saturday 30th April at Germany’s Hokenheim track. The Pole defeated 5 DTM champions, and managed to get ahead of pole sitter Daniel Lloyd early on in the race. Daniel Lloyd took second place [...]

In a recent interview, the CEO of Porsche, now owned by the Volkswagen group, stated that talks were going to be held with NASCAR in January to discuss the possibility of adding VW to the stock car races sometime this decade. Last year, when the subject was broached with former world class driver Hans-Joachim Stuck, [...]

The world’s best eco-friendly car for racing, the VW Scirocco R-Cup will be fielded in the Race of Champions due to take place in Dusseldorf on the 27th and 28th November. Various racing superstars will compete in this event which will put the 275 hp Scirocco’s against each other. The drivers include Le Mans legend [...]

Concluding the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup Series over the weekend of the 25th and 26th September 2010 in Mexico, veteran driver JD Mobley secured back-to-back victories to win the 2010 championship. In qualifying, Mobley attained pole which was his first in the season. He said, “All I can say is what a day. I came [...]

The weekend of the 19th and 20th June saw the 5th round of the VW Jetta TDI Cup take place in Ohio. The rookie winner Wyatt Gooden was ecstatic about his victory considering that it was also Father’s Day and that he had won in front of his family at his home track. The race [...]

The 4th round of the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup held on the 6th June in Utah, culminated in a victory for Jake Thompson. This makes his third VW Jetta TDI Cup win, having won twice in his rookie season, which was last year. Second place went to veteran driver JD Mobley, which make this his [...]

The Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 CNG took the first 3 spots on the podium at this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hour Race in Germany in the alternative power class. These VW concept cars announced their involvement in the race last month and omit 80 percent less carbon dioxide emissions. The engines are modified to run on compressed [...]

The Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup is underway with the third round having just taken place in New Jersey this past weekend. This race consists of the 25 identical VW Jetta TDI’s driven by 25 of the best young up and coming drivers in the world to promote the VW TDI clean B5 biodiesel technology. It [...]