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Better search Amazon for a bulk package of adhesive remover for this week's Ratty Rescue, you'll need allll of it. One of our faithful VWVortex readers needs to rescue this low mileage 1995 MK3 Jetta and restore it to acceptable condition. The late 1990s shall forever go down as one of the most...

Ah, The Fast and The Furious. A film responsible for a generation of car lovers. It’s hard to believe that the movie was made long enough ago that it’s now the subject of nostalgia, but for a dedicated crew of Quebeckers, it was time to remake a dream car, which in this case was the white Jetta...

There’s simply no stopping the high-performing Fast and Furious franchise. What started off as the butt of automotive jokes has become a worldwide phenomenon, with the eighth installment,  The Fate of the Furious , coming out of the gate with an estimated $532.5-million worldwide opening...

Two Fast & Furious fans thought they were getting a sneak preview of the new movie, but they were actually in for a huge surprise. Xfinity invited out two of its customers who are die-hard Fast & Furious fans to what they were led to believe was a special screening of the movie in a drive-in...

Details are coming in on the eighth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, entitled The Fate of the Furious. The information was officially released on Instagram in a teaser post last week. On Sunday, December 11, the full trailer was revealed, complete with automotive carnage and...

Brian O’Conner’s last ride might not have been in Furious 7. After Paul Walker’s untimely death in 2013 while being a passenger in his Porsche Carrera GT , his brothers Cody and Caleb stepped in to help finish filming his role in the most recent Fast and the Furious movie. That entry in the...

The Indy 500 doesn’t run until the 29 th , but the historic track is already abuzz with activity. The good news is that in the lead up to the 100th Indy 500, there's something even better than watching a bunch cars go in a circle real fast, and that’s Mecum’s Indianapolis auction, running from...

In a story that we're filing under "the unexpected", the Mk3 Jetta that belonged to Jesse's father in the original Fast and Furious film has sold at Barrett-Jackson for $46,200.  Sure, the car was part of one of the most lucrative movie franchises of all time, but this is quite a lot of coin for...

Heading to Race Wars?  Barrett-Jackson might just have the perfect car for you.  Originally cast as one of the star cars in the first Fast and Furious film (owned by Jesse's dad who was locked up in County, as I'm sure you all remember), this Mk3 Jetta was modified in the trends of the day, with...