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2009 VW Jetta TDI Cup to air on Speed TV starting Dec. 6

Back in October, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI cup wrapped up its second season in fine fashion during the Petit Le Mans weekend at Road Atlanta. While the ten-race series was not broadcast live, cameras from Speed TV were on hand for each event. If you, like most people, missed the races, now is your chance to catch up with some of the best racing out there as Speed gets ready to start airing the 2009 series on December 6. The first four 30-minute races of this year's series will be aired back-to-back on that day starting at 5 p.m. EST with ... Read more →

From diesel to natural gas: Jetta TDI Cup winner off to Europe for Scirocco Cup Sebastian Blanco

Will Timmy Megenbier be able to reproduce his diesel-powered success in the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup in the natural-gas-powered Scirocco Cup in Europe next year? The answer lies only in the ...

2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup 'Street" edition arrives in January Sam Abuelsamid

When we were in Germany last month for the launch of the 2010 Golf, VW product planner Andres Valbuena told us that a special street replica of the Jetta TDI Cup race car would be launching in ...

2009 Jetta TDI Cup to run on B5 biodiesel Sam Abuelsamid

Volkswagen's Jetta TDI Cup series will be returning to the racetracks of North America at the end of April with 30 diesel-powered sedans in the hands of young up and coming drivers. For this ...

Chicago 2009: Jetta TDI wins Motor Week's Drivers Choice "Best of Year" Award Sebastian Blanco

The Jetta TDI has won the Popular Mechanics' Automotive Excellence Award, the Green Car Journal's 2009 Green Car of the Year and, today in Chicago, Motor Week's Driver's Choice Award for the ...

SEMA 2008: VW Jetta TDI Street concept, live from Vegas 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Our team of crack journalists at SEMA have located the Jetta TDI Street concept, so we can now bring you some live shots of the car along with all of the assorted details. As we expected when we first heard that VeeDub was working up the concept, there are no powertrain changes to speak of. ...

Diesel fan? VW wants you (to promote its cars) 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If you are a fan of the diesel engine - and Volkswagen's TDI engine series in particular - VW would love it if you'd go ahead and spread your love of the oil-burner with your family and friends. Of course, having the only 50-state legal diesel on the market, at least for a little while, the ...

Volkswagen not yet planning to support higher biodiesel concentrations 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back in 2007, when Volkswagen was kicking off its Dieselution tour, we asked VW of America CEO Stefan Jacoby about official support for biodiesel concentrations higher than five percent. At the time there was no national standard for B20 biodiesel blends and Volkswagen would not provide warranty ...

Many dealers report selling out of Jetta TDI, Tiguan TDI possible 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen dealerships are reporting strong demand for the brand-new 2009 Jetta and Jetta Sportwagen TDI. Some dealers have even sold out before their first TDI even showed up on the lot, despite the fact that customers won't actually be getting their cars for at least another month or so. The ...

Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup heads north of the border 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen kicked off its Jetta TDI Cup race series a couple of weeks ago at VIRginia International Raceway with a close fought and exciting battle to the finish. This weekend they are heading north to another of the toughest tracks in North America at Mosport Park, north-east of Toronto. The ...

New York Auto Show: clean diesel Jetta SportWagen coming to us in 2008 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The popular Jetta shows its makeover in the Empire State, en route to the rest of America. The Jetta SportWagen debuts in the U.S. at the New York International Auto Show this week, and the diesel version is coming to stateside dealerships in early 2008. The Jetta is VW's best-selling model, and ...

It takes Martin Winterkorn almost no time in charge to put a hold on hybrid VWs 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

When Martin Winterkorn took over for Wolfgang Bernhard very recently, he examined the next versions of the Rabbit and VW's other models hybrid plans and immediately put them on hold. An unnamed VW executive says, "the hybrid business case doesn't work out, no matter how you look at it." Toyota ...

New Jetta TDI is the cleanest VW diesel ever; VW looking for oldest, highest-mileage VW diesel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

2007 Jetta 2.0. Click here for a high-resolution image gallery of VW clean technologies. While the strict diesel emission requirements were tough for automakers to adjust to, today's news from the D.C. Auto Show proves that they've still got what it takes to live up to the clean air laws that the ...

VW releasing last year's Golf and Jetta in Canada as 2007 base models 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Used to be, if an American wanted a Volkswagen that wasn't available for sale in the United States, Mexico was the place to go. Who knows how many old Bugs made the trek north back in the day. Now, though, if it's the VW City Golf and City Jetta you want, you can head north. VW is releasing last ...

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