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After yesterday’s breach of Volkswagen’s Scirocco embargo, it wasn’t a matter of if but when more official images would leak out. So, like clockwork, Volkswagen continues to bleed Scirocco pics profusely. Volkswagen, better get some gauze around that wound before you bleed the whole press release before Monday.

In any case, further examining these newly leaked [...]

As they say, embargoes are made to be broken. Some trigger-happy websites broke Volkswagen’s embargo on two official Scirocco photos which has now made its way around the net.

So I’m sure the question on everyone’s mind is “how faithful is it to the Iroc Concept?” Well, we can say pretty damn faithful but it does [...]

I’ll come right out and say it. I’m not a fan of hybrid cars. I just think that it’s all hype. When you look at the bigger picture, hybrids are very inefficient. First, you have to mine the minerals for the batteries (most common of which are lithium or nickel), which does a considerable amount [...]

Volkswagen has put up a Scirocco microsite, just several weeks before the Geneva Motor Show begins in March, thus fueling the speculation that the car may actually debut at Geneva. Of course, the last time Volkswagen put up a microsite was for the Passat CC, which then debuted the next month. So a Scirocco at [...]