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Beetle Drive Picks Up Speed

DO you feel that your Beetle is a little slow? Volkswagen might have the answer, although you’ll need to take some brave pills if you want to take advantage of its latest offering. As part of the German manufacturer’s plans to enter the motorsport scene in the U.S.

Audi and VW tuner ABT Sportsline to show Audi AS6 sedan at SEMA

ABT Sportsline well-known in Europe for tuning Audis and other Volkswagen Group brands, working on everything from SEATs to Škodas, though few outside the Audi community in the U.S. are aware of their tuning and DTM racing efforts. To get the U.S.

Feds researching fire risks from EV batteries, regulator says

Federal safety regulators have begun an $8.75 million study of whether lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles pose a potential fire hazard, officials said Thursday. Kevin Vincent, chief counsel of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said researchers are looking at whether the high-voltage batteries can cause fires when they are being charged and when the vehicles are in an accident.