While studying traditional news journalism in college, Jake realized he was smitten by all things automotive and wound up with an internship at Car and Driver. That led to a career writing news, ...

Numerous reports emerged last year of metallic sounds coming from the 2nd or 3rd gears of Volkswagen Group's DSG gearboxes, especially in countries with warm climate and/or band roads. After ...

No matter that we'd rather drive Golfs, there’s no question that America loves its Beetles. The Beetle coupe introduced a year ago has contributed 24,000 units year to date to the U.S. sales ...

Audi has been developing an electric turbocharger for several years and seems close to launching it on a production car. The new RS 5 TDI concept adds an e-turbo to its biturbo V6 to provide an ...

I'm not a fan of the 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, but this TDI variant has been blessed with one heck of an engine and transmission combo. Antuan Goodwin Senior Writer, Electrified Cars Antuan started out ...

Here’s Volkswagen’s American dilemma: Fans like the way the brand’s cars are more expensively engineered than their mainstream rivals, but it’s difficult to shift Jettas in the same quantities as ...

We first heard Audi was working on an electrically-driven turbocharger back in 2012, but now the automaker has revealed an engine fitted with the technology in a new concept car. The concept is based ...