Used car shopping used to be a scary maze of breakdown-prone models, but reliability has gained sharply.

The Edmunds.com data department has scanned the car-buying landscape and come up with a host of special lease deals that have payments that are less than $200 per month -- some as low as $149 per month.

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Volkswagen's 2011 Jetta sedan is not only bigger and faster but also more fuel-efficient than the previous model.

Since arriving in Canada in 1974, the Golf has been a perennial favourite. For 2010, the new Golf grows in terms of its look a ' it is more sophisticated a ' and the models available.

We are, as often is the case, taking a back seat to bigger interests. To be fair, John White, VW Group Canada president and CEO, says Canada does have a voice at the table where VW's North American plans are constantly and continually hashed out.

Volkswagen AG the sprawling automotive group with divisions as diverse as Bentley in Britain, Lamborghini in Italy and Porsche in Germany has grand plans for the world and decidedly modest ones for Canada.

Saepio, a leading provider of marketing technology for corporations with distributed marketing networks, announced today that it has been selected by Volkswagen of America, Inc to provide localized marketing capabilities for its nearly 600 dealers nationwide.

It's called an axiom for a reason. You can't have it all, and we can prove it. Our evidence? The 2011 Honda CR-Z. Until now, we held out hope that some car company would find a way to deliver everything we wanted in an environmentally responsible sporty coupe, from great fuel economy to great handling.

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Sunday, July 18, 2010 -- Karthik Shankar, the 24-year old commercial pilot from Hyderabad, today won the 2nd race in Round 2 of the Volkswagen-JK Tyre Polo Cup India 2010 at the Kari Motor Speedway in Coimbatore.

The Mazda MX-5, the benchmark for fun-to-drive roadsters, is built and priced to bring owners maximum happiness with minimal regret.

The original Volkswagen Beetle set all records for longetivity with its 65 year production run.

You see them all over the road and driven by all types of people. The teenage girl in a Jetta, the aging hippie in a New Beetle, the family man in a Passat Estate, the Yuppie tech guru in his Golf diesel, and the tuner subculture rocking their GTIs with the sunroof vent popped, staring at you as drive by in the same car with a quick nod of approval ...

It's the end of the road for the long-running Chrysler PT Cruiser. Chrysler The recipe was simple.

Yesterday, Volkswagen and Mexican president Felipe Calderon officially opened an expansion to the German automaker's Puebla, Mexico, assembly plant.

Volkswagen Canada announced today that its new vehicle sales in the first half of this year were the highest in the company's history.

The total of 22,885 new vehicles sold betters the old mark of 22,642 set in 2000, and is 20.5% better than the figure of 18,988 posted in the same period last year.

The 2010 Kia Soul follows the cute-ute tradition of SUV-like vehicles that are not intended for off-road duty.