Car news, 01 April ’25: Chinese automakers battle for title of fastest EV-charger, Mahindra announces new SUV for Australia

Biding your time, waiting for the right moment to deploy something – be it a spicy email, a coming-out revelation, or a mid-sized electric SUV that needed Four-and-a-half years after it launched in Europe, Volkswagen’s original ID-badged SUV arrives following an extensive mid-cycle update, carrying a value-for-money price

The top-selling electric vehicle in Australia is the Tesla Model Y: in the first nine months of 2023, 23,457 Aussies took one home. There are strong VW says its ID4 and ID5 electric SUVs have what it takes to compete with the best-selling Tesla Model Y. We take an early drive in the GTX flavour of the coupe-style ID5

Volkswagen’s landmark electric SUV succeeds in blending the familiar with the futuristic with its foray into attainable mainstream EV motoring

Volkswagen has seen what the Australian ute market has been offered, with trendy black sticker pack options offered from seemingly most manufacturers. With new black-themed exterior styling cues and a limited run of just 300 units, is the new Edition version of the Multivan special enough to justify the $82,990 asking price?

Volkswagen Australia is certainly pumped about its big-wheeled, fat-tyred, handling-tuned Amarok dual-cab ute. Developed by Walkinshaw Automotive in Our first full reveal of both the styling and the driving dynamics of the handling-biased, new-gen Volkswagen Amarok W-series unmasks a muscular, planted, highly accomplished sporting ute.

Late last year, Volkswagen renewed many of its model names in Australia, with big improvements to usability and material quality coming to Golf Mk8.5 and Top-spec Tayron promises GTI performance with space for seven but is this flagship too rich?

Chasing Cars has awarded barely a handful of 9/10 scores in its 12-year history, and it’s not all that surprising, because while it’s harder to come by a The Volkswagen Amarok is refined, handsome and capable – so why is it so much less popular than its Ranger sibling? Time to find out, over a gruelling long-term test

A few years ago, it felt like Volkswagen was nailing its market niche, providing buyers with premium-feeling vehicles without an outrageous uplift in The sweet spot of the three-row Tayron lineup, the 150TSI Elegance grade restores Volkswagen’s ‘premium for the people’ value pitch to strong form

Volkswagen’s unique selling point is that it offers Australians elevated, sophisticated vehicles for not much more cash than mainstream rivals. The Tiguan The new Tiguan blends upgraded interior materials with enhanced driving dynamics. Is the athletic, polished 150TSI R-Line the sweet spot?

From the moment we saw the Volkswagen ID.Buzz in the flesh, endorphins flowed. It’s such a cool thing – the sort of vehicle that transcends class divides The sportiest ID.Buzz could’ve turned out unbearably firm and a step too far for this iconic-looking electric van. But the GTX is clearly the best people-carrying Buzz so far

“Damn shame,” I mutter to myself, blasting out of a tight, sodden corner at the chunky wheel of the new Mk 8.5 Volkswagen Golf R. My blues are due to this This will be the final petrol-powered interaction of the Golf R, but will this brutally effective hot hatch be remembered as a high point in the model’s history?

The confidence Volkswagen Australia has in the new third-generation Tiguan is perhaps best demonstrated in the breadth of the line-up at launch: it wants Wolfsburg’s ‘mini Touareg’ aims to take on German prestige and Chinese mid-size SUV rivals in a broad, five-variant line-up.

It was the concession that had to happen – an admittance by Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg that its approach to slick cabin technology in the 2021 Mk8 Golf The evergreen Golf GTI gets a mid-life makeover for generation eight, creating a hot hatch that’s now easier to live with, easier on the eye, and better than ever to drive.

The humble people-mover might have plummeted in popularity since its 1980s heyday, but Volkswagen has never relented – it has been selling a Volkswagen’s seventh-generation Multivan switches to a passenger-car platform to improve its sophistication, while aiming for benchmark interior versatility and space.

The Volkswagen Golf turned 50 last year, and the famous German small car has been given a well-timed facelift to keep it looking trim and toned in its The eighth-generation Golf has been given a midlife makeover, and we've had an early opportunity to find out if the updates have improved Germany's latest-generation hatchback.

Let’s cut to the chase – the Cargo version of the new all-electric Volkswagen ID Buzz is, by a noticeable margin, the best version of the model to drive. The closest spiritual successor to the Type 2 Kombi van among Volkswagen’s new electric ID Buzz range is the Cargo – a three-seat load-lugger that drives like a car

Thanks for joining us this Monday, May 05th 2025. Notably in car news today: latest VFacts sales figures show Toyota HLux back on top of sales while PHEVs

Finally, Volkswagen has announced pricing for its first electric cars, the ID.4 and ID.5. There’s a nice surprise in store for those who have waited, After years of delays, Volkswagen has finally released ID.4 and ID.5 pricing, and the numbers come as a pleasant surprise

Volkswagen has confirmed that Australia will secure the higher-output facelifted versions of the long-awaited ID4 and ID5 SUVs when the pair launch in “Faster and more efficient” versions to arrive for Australian debut in Q2 2024.

With less than a year to run until the Volkswagen ID4 and ID5 midsize electric SUVs arrive in Australia, the brand says it will explicitly target the

Volkswagen’s electric SUV strategy will reportedly see the updated ID4 and ID5 sold alongside an electric Tiguan

Volkswagen Australia's managing director Michael Bartsch has said we may miss out on plug-in hybrids due to overwhelming demand overseas.

Thanks for joining us this Friday 27 September 2024. Notably in car news today: Volkswagen sets a Guinness World Record with the new ID4, and Chinese

The total cost of ownership of Volkswagen’s new ID4 and ID5 midsize electric SUVs will be lower than an equivalent combustion model, the brand’s local

First tipped for a 2023 launch, the electric ID4 and ID5 SUV pairing will now likely land in the first half of 2024

Volkswagen will bring its sporty, all-wheel drive ID4 GTX and ID5 GTX electric SUVs to Australia. GTX is emerging as the electric incarnation of

Volkswagen Australia’s passenger vehicles division is pulling out all the stops to bring forward the release date of two electric SUVs for Australia – the

Volkswagen Australia has indicated that the price of the ID4 electric midsize SUV will be lower in Australia than some pundits had predicted, with the

Volkswagen has taken on old ID4 test mule and given it an off-road treatment for a tough looking concept called the 'XTreme'

The near-production ID Aero concept debuted in China where a production version is slated to go on sale during the second half of 2023

After launching overseas in 2020, the ID4 could soon make it to Australia after recent legislation wins moved critical discussions forward.

Will Volkswagen brand its EVs as Voltswagens? Reports from the US suggest that it will.