Volkswagen of America announces 21 percent increase in year to date sales

Jetta SportWagen Sets All-Time Sales Records While Passat Has Best Sales Month In Nearly Two Years

Volkswagen of America, Inc. today reported that August marked a 21 percent increase in year-to-date sales for their entire line of vehicles. August 2010 sales decreased 7.9 percent when compared with the same time last year, which included historic sales as part of the launch of the U.S. government’s “cash for clunkers” program. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen of America announces 21 percent increase in year to date sales’

Published on September 2, 2010 in VW News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Volkswagen celebrates opening of new dealership in Alhambra, California

Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today the grand opening of the Volkswagen Alhambra Dealership in Alhambra, California. Executives from Volkswagen and City of Alhambra Mayor Stephen Sham attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the dealership. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen celebrates opening of new dealership in Alhambra, California’

Published on August 31, 2010 in VW News. 0 Comments Tags: , .

VAGKraft 2010 Photo Gallery

VAGKRAFT is Canada’s premiere VW/Audi event. Held annually in the GTA, our event mixes the rush and energy of motorsports, the showmanship of a traditional car show, and the power of a world-class audio event! Dubworld’s East Coast photographer, Jason Morabito took advantage of a short break between rainstorms and got us some great photos.

Over 120 pictures after the jump!
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Published on August 26, 2010 in Events. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Achtuning’s Project CC gets some new wheels

Our good friends over at Achtuning and Hartmann Wheels are having a fun summer. They have added several new project cars to their fleet including an R8, a B8 A4 avant and this beautiful VW CC. Freshly dropped on some brand-new Hartmann HROC-233 Wheels the Achtuning project CC looks amazing. They recently dropped the CC using a set of new Koni SS coilovers and we absolutely love the ride height. Keep up the good work guys, and we look forward to more Project CC updates! Also we’d like to wish the owner of this car, Achtuning’s Dion Spina, a very happy birthday!

source: http://achtuning.com/

Published on August 19, 2010 in Tuners. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Video: Waterfest 2010 by Eric Shell

Waterfest 2010 from eric shell on Vimeo.

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Published on August 4, 2010 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

Martini Racing themed VW Scirocco from Krause Tuning

I love twitter because once in a while a tweet catches my eye and I happen to click a link and find something very unexpected and awesome. Tonight was just another case of me paying attention at just the right time. What I was drawn to was a post on Vau-Max.de a German car blog and a post capturing the build of a very clean VW Scirocco from the tuners at Krause Tuning in Germany. I translated the post and found out that the entire build was done in just 3 days! I’ll save you the trouble of translating the article and post up some of the details here.
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Published on August 4, 2010 in Scirocco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Five Nordschleife legends to race in Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup

Five big names that have made motorsport history on the Nürburgring will compete in the two races of the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup on the Eifel circuit on 07 and 08 August.

Sabine Schmitz (Germany), Uwe Alzen (Germany), Altfrid Heger (Germany), Olaf Manthey (Germany) and Hans-Joachim Stuck (Austria) have clinched a total of eleven victories in the 24-hour race on the Nordschleife between them. Now the legends of the “Green Hell” are tackling the challenge of competing with the 20 regular drivers of the innovative one-make cup, in which the identical vehicles are powered by bio natural gas and thus achieve an 80-per cent reduction of CO2, on the short version of the Nürburgring.
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Published on August 3, 2010 in Motorsports. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Volkswagen Golf R with OZ Ultraleggera HLT wheels

Sport-Wheels Golf R running OZ Ultraleggera HLT's

Sport-Wheels tuning company in Cologne nicknamed the new Volkswagen Golf R, “The Bull”. The power has been increased to well 330 hp and the suspension system has been updated for a more rigid and responsive behavior. (continue reading…)

Published on July 23, 2010 in Tuners. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Waterfest 16 Photo Gallery

Waterfest 16 was held once again at Englishtown Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey this past weekend. I feel sorry for anyone within 10 miles of this place who doesn’t like VWs and Audis because for this one weekend each year, Englishtown and the surrounding communities become the “Mecca” of Audi and VW enthusiasts from around the globe. The local towns of East and North Brunswick are completely overwhelmed by this and it is evident from both traffic and increased activity at every gas station, hotel and restaurant in town. DubWorld.com and QuattroWorld.com had a booth at Waterfest for the first time. We were very excited to meet many of you and cover the show. We are already looking forward to next year!

We will be posting a more complete event wrap up soon but for now I wanted to share our best show photos with you all. Over 300 Photos below for your enjoyment… We invite you to please post up your pics in our Waterfest Forum!

- Josh

Complete gallery after the jump!
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Published on July 20, 2010 in Events. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

Welcome to DubWorld.com!

The team behind the #1 most viewed Audi enthusiast website on the internet, QuattroWorld.com, has announced a new partner website called DubWorld.com that is aimed towards the VW enthusiast.  DubWorld.com provides a fresh new look into the dub culture.

The front page of the website is an interactive blog covering the dub scene including VW corporate news, Tuner news, Event coverage and VW motorsports. Other resources include an in depth media gallery, a Wikipedia style user created information database, and of course a full forum site built on the Kawf format that has made QuattroWorld.com so successful.

The Kawf forum platform offers a truly unique forum experience for its users. The Kawf forum software is designed around natural human conversation and thus online discussions are much more user friendly and naturally flowing. Multiple separate conversations can continue in a single thread without the cumbersome style of normal “bulletin” formatted forums.

We felt that there was no better place to make an announcement of this magnitude then at the 16th annual installment of Waterfest which is the largest Audi/VW show in North America. The team behind the launch of DubWorld.com has been working for several months in preparation for this day.

APR, LLC has signed on as the Title Sponsor of DubWorld.com. They are joined by dozens of other companies including, 034 Motorsport, Achtuning.com, Addict Motorsport Design, Autospeed Performance, Autosportwerks, Avalon Motorsports, AWE Tuning, Clutchmasters, Continental Tire, ECS Tuning, Elite Motorsports, EPL, Europrice, GIAC, Griffen Motorworks, Induktion Motorsport, Liquid Crack, Ringer Racing, Stratmosphere, Tire Rack, and Wicked Motorsports all of whom have signed on to support the growth of this new site.

Launching a new site is always a challenge. We look forward to seeing the site grow, the forums fill up with useful content and the website to become known as a leading source for worthwhile and interesting information about all things VW.

Please check back often as we are only beginning the process of building this online community and will be working continually to improve the experience for our visitors. We hope that you will decide to join with us as we create this community together!

Sincerely,

Joshua Decker
Founder, DubWorld.com & QuattroWorld.com
josh@dubworld.com

Published on July 17, 2010 in blog. 0 Comments