Volkswagen Golf

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is the most versatile performance car on the market. The mk1 GTI, the beginning of one of the most desired hot hatches on the market today. It all started with a small group of engineers codenamed “sport Golf” and a spare bin of parts. They combined the 1.6L 4-cylinder engine from an Audi 80 with a few spare parts from a Fox GT to create the well known Volkswagen Golf GTI. But that 's not what makes this car special, what makes it special is the versatility of the car. Here you have a striking everyday family hatchback designed by the famous Giorgetto Giugiaro but, if you look past the design you will find it’s performance side. The mk1 had 110hp, which doesn’t seem like much but, the car only weighed 1800 lbs. This…

further with the greatest effect on the dampers and stability control shut off. On normal roads, the hatchback bounces constantly and uncomfortably so, but is designed to navigate hairpin turns at high speeds on where else…the track. Switch to drift mode and the tail of the car gives out as you take turns at an elevated speed. Large Brembo brakes bring this hatchback to a confident stop. Launch control is yet another RS feature. Accessed through the instrument panel’s cluster gear, the system…

First, the history of Volkswagen began in 1904 in Germany when talking about a new way of transportation aside from the railroad started. Adolf Hitler was a fanatic of cars and soon after rising to power in 1934 and during the International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition in Berlin Hitler announce his interest on getting involve on the automobile industry. For Hitler automobiles represented “a symbol of national pride and technological prowess” (Kiley, 2002). In contrast, of been only a…

Dieselgate: How They Covered Volkswagen With 11 million infected cars and over $18 billion in fines on the line, Volkswagen's recent diesel debacle is the largest-scale scandal ever to face the automotive world, with lawsuits, retroactive taxing, and brand damage that will limit the automotive leviathan for years to come. With so much of the German economy hinging on the automotive sector, the fate of Volkswagen will have widespread impacts on the global market, so fair and proportional…

1 MGMT-512 Exam-1: Volkswagen Corporate Failure in 2015 ANALYSIS OF VOLKSWAGEN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DEALING WITH EMISSION SCANDAL Prepared By: Name: Nil Surname: KINIK ID: 52930 2 Volkswagen which is well-known German car producer became worldwide number one car producer in 2015. However in September 2015, something went wrong and VW found out…

Nox manipulation? American car owners sued Daimler A car owner in the US has a class action against the car maker Daimler launched for alleged fraud in emission levels. For certain diesel models of the emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) exceeds the legal requirements in the US at temperatures below ten degrees Celsius to 65-fold, according to the application filed in a court in Illinois on Thursday. The group accused both violations of US environmental laws and mislead consumers when buying a…

The design for our car is going to be a bus with a bluetooth speaker in the middle. The bus is going to look like an old Volkswagen bus with lots of color on it. The idea of our bus is something fun and colorful for kids to play with, but also to connect their smart device using bluetooth to listen to music. Our bus is named The Bumping Bus, our slogan is Bump and Go, and our company name is Bumping Bus Co. Our toy has the black frame that's covered by a tissue box and a pool noodle is…

focused on COX but US emission standards are more focused on NOX.( ) Since VW’s introduction in US, sales figures remained stagnant. By the end of the decade that means during 2006-09, in order to increase their sale and promote clean diesel powered vehicle in US; both VW and Daimler invested a lot. Outcome were fruitful with the inception of Daimler’s BLUE TEC system. So Daimler AG agreed to share their BlueTec technology platform with Volkswagen and Audi. But in August 2007 VW Group…

Five years from now I hopeful see myself owning a place of my own and having a career as a automotive technician or as a commercial pilot. Something i enjoy doing. "You only live this life one time, have fun."- Baddie Winkle I became an automotive enthusiasts in 7th grade. Dreamed of owning my own car to my liking and later in life becoming an Automotive technician. My first favorite car was the Audi a4. I thought it was cool, fast and it had awd. My older brother Sam who more experienced…

idles nearby. Like a few members, I was surprised to learn that since 2009, Volkswagen had been installing defeat software in 482,000 "clean diesel" vehicles sold in the US, so that the cars' pollution controls only worked when being tested for emissions. As a recent article stated “The rest of the time, the vehicles could freely spew hazardous, smog-forming compounds” Ouch. The day prior to that announcement there I was singing the praises of the TDI, a high mileage sedan with no batteries…