Gameday is nearly upon us. (Ready the Fritos!) But you don't need to wait for kickoff to watch the most inspired commercials from VW, Kia, Chevy, Pepsi, Toyota, and more, set to air during the Super Bowl. Click here to get started.READ»
What's been happening this week in the world of robotics? Read on to find out how much more clever/terrifying/increasingly useful the cyber-hood has become. READ»
Like Dylan at Newport, the scraggly old VW bus is going electric.
Volkswagen is expected to introduce a conceptual, iPad-enabled Microbus EV at the International Motor Show in Geneva tomorrow. The vehicle goes by the name Bulli -- ...READ»
Google has been secretly testing autonomous cars, we learned this week. The project isn't exactly new: Sebastian Thrun, creator of Google's Street View and the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has been ...READ»
The successor to Stefan Jacoby, former president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, has finally been announced: Jonathan Browning will take over next month. His goals are ambitious, to say the least.READ»
We recently looked at a Volkswagen Beetle rigged to run on human waste. But for sustainability-happy VW fans who have a hard time stomaching the idea of a poop-powered vehicle, we present a second, more sterile option.READ»
Volkswagen wants to be world's biggest automaker by 2018. The company's secret (or not so secret, as the case may be) sauce: the Jetta. This week, FastCompany.com had a chance to take the yet-to-be-released 2011 Jetta SEL for a spin ...READ»
Drama in the automotive world isn't limited to struggling startups and bankrupt heavyweights. Case in point: Rumors are circulating that Stefan Jacoby, President and CEO of the Volkswagen Group of America, is ditching VW for Volvo, ...READ»
Did you know that Volkswagen's "focus on mobility" extends beyond cars to two-wheelers? Neither did we until VW research and development chief Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg said so at this week's Auto China 2010 show. Hackenberg introduced ...READ»
EVs will play an increasingly large role, Dr. Karl-Thomas
Neumann, Chief Officer for Electric Traction at the Volkswagen Group, tells FastCompany.com. But combustion engines aren't going anywhere either. In an interview about the ...READ»
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Adolf Hitler approves Ferdinand Porsche's design for the "people's car," or volkswagen. A town called Stadt des KdF-Wagens, now Wolfsburg, is established for factory workers in 1938. Full-scale production is planned for ...READ»
From Wolfsburg, Germany, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, the events that shaped Volkswagen are all over the map. So jump into a Beetle and ride along through this tour of VW's history.READ»
The remote-controlled, computer-savvy car is one of those mythological automotive promises (like the flying car) that we all kind of assumed we'd have by 2010. Where's my Will-Smith-from-I-Robot car?READ»
With geo-aware brains and no driver, this modified Audi TT-S experimental vehicle is built to drift around corners and then regain control of itself. It could be the forerunner of future handling systems that could allow drivers to ...READ»
The electric car really is due at a showroom near you, we can confirm, because VW, maker's of the "people's car" will have one in 2013. VW's even dubbing the E-Up the "Beetle of the 21st Century". Can this lofty claim be ...READ»
