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– The Wörthersee festival is in full swing—perhaps you’ve read about some of the other hot-ass cars debuting there?—and here’s one more tuned VW for the attendees to gape at. The Golf Variant Biturbo is a one-off project that combines a couple of our favorite things: station wagons and sweet diesel power. – Yes, it’s a Golf SportWagen—the Golf Variant in Euro-speak—with a 2.0-liter twin-turbocharged TDI motor bolted between the front wheels. Output stands at
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-For all of the fanfare surrounding the annual Volkswagen gathering at Wörthersee, one of the yearly highlights since 2008 has been the apprentice-built GTIs. These are cars conceived of, built, and displayed by young apprentices working for VW and its suppliers, and it’s an undeniably cool way for Volkswagen to train its next generation of car know-it-alls. For the 2015 festival, VW’s youth squad, ages 17 through 25, transformed a
-For all of the fanfare surrounding the annual Volkswagen gathering at Wörthersee, one of the yearly highlights since 2008 has been the apprentice-built GTIs. These are cars conceived of, built, and displayed by young apprentices working for VW and its suppliers, and it’s an undeniably cool way for Volkswagen to train its next generation of car know-it-alls. For the 2015 festival, VW’s youth squad, ages 17 through 25, transformed a
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-We’ve already learned a smattering of details about Nissan’s GT-R LM NISMO endurance racer that’s set to debut at Le Mans. It’s kind of a weirdo: A twin-turbo V-6 powers the front wheels, and a spate of very outside-the-box design decisions give it a shape unlike anything else. Now Nissan is tipping its hand ever so slightly, publishing the car’s full specs ahead of its Le Mans debut. – Below
-We’ve already learned a smattering of details about Nissan’s GT-R LM NISMO endurance racer that’s set to debut at Le Mans. It’s kind of a weirdo: A twin-turbo V-6 powers the front wheels, and a spate of very outside-the-box design decisions give it a shape unlike anything else. Now Nissan is tipping its hand ever so slightly, publishing the car’s full specs ahead of its Le Mans debut. – Below
– If you’ve never been, General Motors’ Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, is an impressive sight to behold. The campus sprawls over 326 acres and features neat jet-age architecture, expansive water features, and the brand’s famous design dome. It’s also exceptionally old and in need of some renovations, and so GM has announced that it is dropping a full $1 billion on updates and expansions for its Warren campus. That’s a
