Check out the sweet developments at the Volkswagen electronics lab

It seems that driving aficionados may be in trouble because at the rate automotive technology is advancing drivers might soon not have to actually drive the car!  At the front of this development work is Volkswagen and their new lab in Palo Alto, California that is co-operated with Stanford University.  VW and Stanford have a longstanding friendship in autonomous vehicle development and are working on developing the prototype “Junior”, an autonomous Passat that was built for a competition just a few years ago.

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Volkswagen’s POLO voted World Car of the Year

There are many car awards handed out each year and sometimes it can be hard to identify the top honor. From “Top Value” to “Most Reliable” to “Customer Favorite,” what do you consider to be the best award to receive? How about being named the “World Car of the Year”? You can’t get much bigger than that and I think we can all agree that this would be a very notable award to receive. With that said, I want to introduce you to the 2010 World Car of the Year, the Volkswagen POLO! The VW dealer in Downers Grove should be pretty proud of itself because this is certainly a huge compliment! … Continue Reading

2011 VW Touran Boasts Over 51mpg

My dad owns a minivan. I don’t think that was what he intended when he was a wild, cigarette-smoking, guitar-playing hippie in the late 1960s, but it’s how it ended for him once he had six kids that needed be hauled around all over the place throughout their childhood. Over the years he’s owned a number of different vans—everything from the gigantic boxy things to the modern and chic minivans of today. But one thing has always sort of held true no matter what kind of van he was driving: none of them got particularly good gas mileage. … Continue Reading