The much anticipated Volkswagen Amarok will make special appearances at selected shopping centres across the country from 10 June to 1 August 2010. Following its successful premiere at the Nampo Harvest Show in North West last month, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is offering prospective customers and public a sneak preview of its first-ever one ton bakkie [...]
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Volkswagen Amarok sneak preview
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Volkswagen Comments on May 2010 Vehicle Sales Figures
During May 2010 a total of 25 724 new passenger cars were sold in South Africa. Total new passenger car sales in May, including sales not reported in detail to NAAMSA, increased by 9.1 percent when compared to April 2010, and by 36.3 percent when compared to May 2009, bringing the year-to-date May market in [...]
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VWSA sole manufacturer and exporter of the new CrossPolo
The next generation of the CrossPolo is ready for new adventures. After the successful launch of the new Polo early in 2010, the new CrossPolo becomes the second model of the Polo series to be introduced locally. With its refreshingly cheeky design, unique choice of colours and features and a higher ride height (15 millimetre [...]
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Spirit of Africa Competition
The Volkswagen Amarok is the new vehicle for the Spirit of Africa competition. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has signed an agreement with Sarel van der Merwe, the founder of the competition, to be the main sponsor of the 2010 competition. Graeme Birch, Marketing Manager for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles said: “Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is proud to be [...]
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Volkswagen Amarok to Premiere at Nampo Show
The new Volkswagen Amarok will be premiered at the Nampo Harvest Day in Bothaville, North West on 18-21 May 2010. Nampo is the largest agricultural show in the southern hemisphere and nearly 60 000 people visit the show over four days. Graeme Birch, Marketing Manager of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles said: “The Nampo show offers us [...]
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Fourth Production Training Academy for VWSA
Well on its way to fulfilling its goal of becoming a benchmark Learning Organisation in the Auto Industry, Volkswagen of South Africa today officially opened its fourth new state-of-the-art Production Training Academy. The honours were done by VWAG Board Member and VW of SA Chairperson, Dr Jochem Heizmann. The new Paint Shop Production Training Academy [...]
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Volkswagen Scirocco gets 155kW engine
The Volkswagen Scirocco is now available with the 2.0 TSI 155kW engine. It replaces the 2.0 TSI 147kW engine. This high revving engine has 280 Newton metres of torque which is available between 1700rpm and 5200rpm. The engine is similar to that of the new Golf GTI. The engine will be offered with an option [...]
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NAAMSA January 2010 Figures
Elaborating on the new vehicle sales statistics for the month of January, 2010 – released today by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) – the Association commented that new car and light commercial vehicle sales had started the year on a positive note, however, sales in the medium and heavy commercial [...]
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New Polo from Volkswagen
The Polo, with its distinctive new Volkswagen family face, is a purposeful and impressive car, which – measuring 3 970 millimetres in length (+ 54 millimetres compared to previous model) and 1 682 millimetres wide (+ 32 millimetres) – offers space for up to five people and a lot of luggage (280 to 952 litres). [...]
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Carlos Sainz heads historic 1-2-3 for Volkswagen
Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz of Spain led an historic Volkswagen 1-2-3 in the 32nd Dakar Rally in Argentina on Saturday when they brought their Race Touareg home in a time of 47h 10min 00sec after 14 days and 9 000 km of marathon off road racing. It was an emphatic [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile Stage 10
Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz and co-driver Lucas Cruz won their first stage on this year’s Dakar Rally when they took their diesel-engined Volkswagen Race Touareg to victory in special stage 10 on Tuesday. Sainz, revelling in the world championship rally-type conditions of the 238-km stage between La Serena and Santiago in Chile, finished [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile Stage 9
Al-Attiyah wins third stage, De Villiers third. Nasser Al Attiyah won his third stage on the 2010 Dakar Rally on Monday and led home another Volkswagen 1-2-3 finish between Copiapo and La Serena in Chile. The Qatari and his German co-driver Timo Gottschalk finished 5min 59sec ahead of Spanish team-mates Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz [...]
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VW of SA leads tough passenger car market in 2009
“VW of SA lead the passenger market in 2009 with total sales of 49 902 units, thereby securing 19.3% of the total passenger market,” said Mike Glendinning, VW of SA Director of Sales and Marketing. “The Polo range proved to be South Africa’s favourite passenger Brand with sales of 18 288 units in 2009″. “The [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Stage 4 – Giniel Recovers to 20th
The top four positions in the Dakar Rally remain unchanged after Tuesday’s 163-km special stage four between Fiambala and Copiapo in Chile, with Volkswagen maintaining its strong showing among the leading cars. For the second day in a row Volkswagen Race Touaregs occupy three of the top four places. Spaniards Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz [...]
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VW Race Touaregs Second, Third and Fourth Overall
While France’s Stephane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret took the overall lead in their BMW X3 after winning the third special stage of the Dakar Rally in Argentina on Monday, Volkswagens filled the next three places at the end of Stage 3 of the 2010 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile. Spain’s Carlos Sainz and Frenchman [...]
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