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  1. Volkswagen News Blog
    Volkswagen’s head of development, Frank Welsch, says that the ID.3 R is something the company is looking at. Whether or not it will come to pass remains a question, though. “I like the idea,” Welsch recently told Autocar , “but we have to decide if the market is ready to accept such a model.”...
  2. Volkswagen News Blog
    It should hardly come as a surprise that a brand that thinks the future automobiles is electric also believes the future of performance automobiles is electric, but it’s still noteworthy. Volkswagen’s head of sales and marketing, Jürgen Stackmann believes that the future must be electric. “The...
  3. Volkswagen News Blog
    Speaking to the UK's Car Throttle this week , Jost Capito, the head of R GmbH, had some hints to provide about the future of the sub-brand. And while a lot of it was reasonable, not all of it was what we wanted to hear. Perhaps the most disappointing revelation was that R is happy enough with...
  4. Volkswagen News Blog
    The next Golf R will be a surprising beast, Jost Capito, head of R GmbH, told Motor Trend. Along with some evolutionary changes, there will be plenty to talk about. As you might expect, Capito called the next Golf R a “real driving machine” and added that there would be lots of small...
  5. Volkswagen News Blog
    It’s not just hot versions of its current concepts, Volkswagen is reportedly planning a dedicated electric sports car. According to Autocar , the ID sports car will be a two-seater or a 2+2. Volkswagen has made no secret of the fact that it has handed its ID vehicles over to R GmbH to see what...
  6. Volkswagen News Blog
    Talk of R SUVs and electrified Rs has dominated the high-performance VW conversation for a few years now, and the latest development suggests that the first step in that direction will be taken with the Touareg R plug-in hybrid. The first R model that will get a plug-in hybrid will be Touareg...
  7. Volkswagen News Blog
    When he took the helm of Volkswagen’s North American division, Scott Keogh promised that he would take care of enthusiasts. The latest development in that story is Keogh’s confidence that the R brand should be expanded in North America. Although already seen on the likes of the T-Roc in Europe...
  8. Volkswagen News Blog
    Volkswagen R director, Jost Capito, has revealed that the next Golf R will feature one choice upgrade and miss out on two others. Speaking to Top Gear magazine , Capito said that although the Mk8 R will get more power than the current model, a drift mode and all-wheel steering should not be...
  9. Misc. Professional Racing
    Although we recently found out that Tanner Foust and Cabot Bigham will be racing side by side in this season’s America’s Rallycross championship, we didn’t know what the cars would look like. Thanks to a tweet from ARX, though, we now have an idea. Releasing two pictures, one of Bigham’s and...
  10. Volkswagen News Blog
    It's now widely known that electric vehicles are capable of enormously fast acceleration figures, but so far VW's fleet has not impressed. That's set to change, though. Speaking to Jost Capito, the R brand's managing director, at the New York International Auto Show, we asked if acceleration...
  11. Volkswagen News Blog
    Take this with an Everest-sized grain of salt, but the UK’s Autocar reports that Volkswagen is —and I cannot stress this enough—allegedly taking another look at the Golf R400. The report comes from an unnamed source who told Autocar that VW is “looking at introducing a new ‘halo’ performance...
  12. Volkswagen News Blog
    Volkswagen's R brand likely won't be putting a plug-in hybrid vehicle into production. Speaking to Top Gear at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show , R brand boss Jost Capito said that hybrid powertrains provide the "worst of both worlds," for performance cars. He pointed out that the battery usually...
  13. Volkswagen News Blog
    Volkswagen is going all in on electric cars and that means more than just retro models and more driving range. It also means performance, which Jost Capito, head of VW’s R department, promises will be worth waiting for. “If we do an R electric car, then it will be a proper R, or else it...
  14. Volkswagen News Blog
    Racing, no matter how passion-fueled, is almost always a marketing exercise. But VW’s decision run for the record at Pikes Peak will be more than just a way to advertise the I.D. brand. The technological breakthroughs made on Sunday's record-breaking Pikes Peak run will actually find their way...
  15. Volkswagen News Blog
    Former McLaren Racing CEO Jost Capito has been named managing director of Volkswagen's R GmbH performance brand and its Zubehör GmbH accessories brand. Capito formerly led VW's racing division, where he helped the automaker win three consecutive World Rally Championship titles in 2014, 2015 and...
  16. Misc. Professional Racing
    As of September 1, 2016, Sven Smeets will take over as director of Volkswagen Motorsport. He replaces the departing Jost Capito. Capito, who led Volkswagen Motorsport through its recent dominance of WRC, is leaving to lead Mclaren’s struggling Formula 1 team. Smeets has been with Volkswagen...
  17. Misc. Professional Racing
    On July 11, 1966 Volkswagen starting competing in Formula V as a way of developing engineering talent. Now, 50 years later, the team created all those years ago, Volkswagen Motorsport, is still at the top of its game, dominating the World Rallly Championship. To celebrate the team’s rich...
  18. Misc. Professional Racing
    It’s a sad day for Volkswagen Motorsport, as Jost Capito, director of motorsport at VW, under whose leadership they have dominated the World Rally Championship, has finally set a date for his departure, reports motorsport.com. Capito’s move to McLaren has been known of since January, but until...
  19. Misc. Professional Racing
    Volkswagen is getting the next Polo R WRC ready for the 2017 World Rally Championship and they have revealed early, promising details. The new car will be faster thanks to more power, less weight, a wider track, and more aerodynamic freedom. The new cars "will be considerably more dynamic...
  20. Misc. Professional Racing
    40 years of GTI: TCR version for the racetrack, Golf GTI Clubsport for the road Production-based touring car to be delivered to teams mid-March All 20 Golf GTI TCRs developed by Volkswagen Motorsport already taken Wolfsburg. The new Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR has the seal of quality in its name...
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