The Golf HyRACER is the latest trainee custom Golf to be built for Worhtersee, and it’s finally getting its debut ahead of its entry into Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg ode to itself, the Autostadt. The car was supposed to be launched at Worhtersee, which as you’d expect was canceled due to the global...

As happens every year, Europe’s Volkswagen enthusiast are meeting on the banks of a picturesque lake high in the Austrian Alps and that means that 29 of the automaker’s brightest apprentices have been chosen to build a GTI of their own. And this year, they’ve built two (sorta). The first, the...

Wörthersee is only a few weeks away and the apprentices are hard at work, getting their annual project car ready for the Austrian GTI celebration. Although it’s not quite ready for the primetime, they have let slip that the GTI will be shown in White Silver metallic paint. “This paintwork is...

Building an electric-powered eBEETLE from a Beetle ride-on car: that is the challenge of the "eBEETLE Car Race" competition for Volkswagen vocational trainees. The design competition organized by the Volkswagen Group Academy got underway at the end of April. The eBEETLE must be designed for...

Other show car premieres: Golf Variant Biturbo Edition (Zwickau) and ŠKODA FUNstar (Mladá  Boleslav) They have followed the call of the lake: 13 Wolfsburg apprentices from Volkswagen and group company Sitech Sitztechnik have traveled to the 34th Wörthersee GTI meeting today to present their 395...

13 apprentices develop unique GTI show car from a body in white World premiere at 34th Wörthersee GTI meeting "Der See ruft ..." (the lake is calling) is painted in yellow on the wing mirrors of the unique Golf GTI Performance*. Samuel Pili (21), apprentice automotive mechatronics technician...

Volkswagen enthusiasts have already begun their annual pilgrimage to Austria for this year's Wörthersee Treffen and as usual, more than a few brands under the Volkswagen Group umbrella will be bringing special projects with them to the event.  Even though the official event is still two weeks...

Classic van morphs into Currywurst stand Spectacular art project with sculptor Erwin Wurm ahead of his exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Together with artist Erwin Wurm and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Volkswagen apprentices have converted a classic 1975 Volkswagen T2b van into an original...

Chattanooga, Tenn — Caleb Higginbotham, a Volkswagen Academy Mechatronics Program graduate, recently returned from Germany where he accepted a Best Apprentice Award with dozens of colleagues from similar programs around the world. Higginbotham is the first Volkswagen Academy graduate to receive...

"Best Apprentice Award 2014" for 43 young talents from 18 countries Apprentices from the USA, India and a dealership owned by the Group honored for the first time The Volkswagen Group today presented its "Best Apprentice Awards 2014" to young top achievers from all over the world at Group...