Volkswagen did something truly unhinged back in 2007 when it built the Golf GTI W12-650. Two months before Austria’s annual Wörthersee gathering of Vee-dub faithful, designers widened a Mk5 GTI and ...

Volkswagen was the world's second-best-selling automaker last year, with 9.2 million units sold. VW has made several of the best-selling cars of all time: When the Beetle was discontinued, it had sold ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...