It seems Volkswagen won't be following Porsche or Mercedes-Benz into the arena of multi-speed transmissions for EVs. On Thursday at the 2024 Los Angeles auto show Kai Grünitz, head of global research ...

For many years, people believed the manual transmission was on its way out, although it stubbornly resisted. Now, its time might have finally come, as shown by a recent decision by SAIC-Volkswagen in ...

The VW Jetta GLI has lost a key ingredient for butting its way past the hatchback GTI—a manual transmission. Cars Direct reports that the 2018 Volkswagen Jetta GLI will only be available with the dual ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

CARS.COM — Two things have plagued Cars.com’s long-term Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen TDI since we purchased it with 47,000 miles in February: a sticky ignition start-stop button that occasionally ...

Volkswagen began today in China the production of the dual clutch transmission, marking a further milestone for Volkswagen Group China in its quest to become the ecological leader among automakers in ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen is considering options for majority-owned transmissions maker Renk , as the German carmaker streamlines operations to help fund an overhaul following its emissions ...

For the 2018 model year, Volkswagen of America is adopting an entirely different approach to its sports sedan transmission lineup than Honda and Subaru. Unlike the Honda Civic Si, which is available ...

Standard used to be, well, standard. But today, as automatic transmissions continue to get smarter and faster, the manual transmission is quickly going the way of the dodo for most manufacturers. VW ...

It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to anything with four wheels. Prior to joining the Roadshow team, he was a freelance contributor for Motor Authority ...

Arriving in the US in late 2021, the most-powerful Golf ever offer buyers a choice of manual or dual-clutch gearbox, plus there's a drift mode. Following stints in TV news production and as a record ...

Driving a car equipped with a manual transmission these days is something of a rarity among the public, but this rarity has turned into something positve for owners of manual-equipped cars. It seems ...