We'd have answered no to all three, but VW chairman Ferdinand Pich says yes. He wants to move VW upmarket and boost the brand's prominence relative to Audi. He's also the one who called for the W ...

Through the years, automakers have answered many unasked questions. Sometimes the answer is a hit like the Ford Mustang or Chrysler minivan. More often than not, it's a rolling enigma that inevitably ...

The Porsche 917, Audi’s defining Quattro all-wheel drive, TDI diesels—Ferdinand Piëch had a hand in them all. But as brilliant an engineer as he was, even Piëch had ideas whose potential proved a hair ...

Bring a Trailer is auctioning off the first 1990 Vector W8 Twin Turbo, a genuine American supercar from the ill-fated Vector Aeromotive company. Vector was the brainchild of the late Jerry Wiegert, an ...

All carmakers seem to want buyers who are fairly young and trend-setting. Why care about cutting-edge customers; you'd think retiring AARP members would have the fattest wallets most worth chasing, ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - The Volkswagen Passat was not designed to accommodate a V-8. So when former VW AG Chairman Ferdinand Piech decided to expand the Passat model range with an eight-cylinder ...

The fruits of VW's labors resulted in the world's first and only narrow angle V6 engine, a distinction that carries on even today. At 2.8-liters in displacement, the VR6, as it was to be called, was ...

Hyundai Motor Group said Friday it will invest 8.1 trillion won ($7.4 billion) in the United States by 2025 to produce electric vehicles, improve production facilities and increase its presence in the ...

Hyundai Motor Group could face an annual tariff burden of around 8.4 trillion won ($5.9 billion) if the US maintains its ...