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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

One can view the W8 motor from two different perspectives - it can be seen as a W12 with one cylinder from each bank of cylinders lopped off, or as half a W16. Either way, the smallest W-layout motor ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Volkswagen was experimenting with W-shaped engines and as it turns out, buying one of the marque’s W-powered models doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Volkswagen ...

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 ...

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 ...