Volkswagen has unveiled a new turbocharged gasoline engine, which will feature the first variable-geometry turbocharger found in a volume car with a spark-ignited unit. The new power plant is called ...

Drivers of VW and Audi models say routine oil top offs masked a larger defect, and now a court will decide what happens next ...

The quest to provide more efficient internal combustion engines has led Volkswagen Group to develop a compact line of petrol TSI evo engines available on most of its models, from the tiny Up! GTI to ...

VW has introduced a new petrol version to the Golf range that claims to offer the same fuel efficiency with a diesel for the cheaper price of a petrol model. The new VW Golf 1.5 TSI ACT Bluemotion is ...

VW 1.4-litre wins overall International Engine of the Year award as well as being voted the Green Engine of the Year German powertrain engineering dominates, winning 11 of the 12 available awards ...

Volkswagen’s TSI engines have been awarded the environmental commendation certified by TÜV Nord, following in the footsteps of the dual-clutch transmission DSG. The Life Cycle Assessment on which the ...

In this review, the Volkswagen Up 1.0 TSI Turbo is assessed as a potential secondary family car. The 90 hp turbocharged engine and sub-one-ton weight deliver lively performance, while compact ...

March 5, 2008 In the quest for making the internal combustion engine go further on less fuel, we’ve seen many different combinations of normal and forced aspiration and alternative fuels, but this is ...

VW is the first manufacturer in the world to implement cylinder shut-off on a four-cylinder TSI engine in volume production. The primary goal of the system is to reduce fuel consumption by temporarily ...

Antony Ingram September 2, 2011 Comment Now! Cylinder deactivation has been with us for several years in big V8 engines. Both GM and Chrysler have used it and Audi now offers it on its S range. Rather ...