2009 VW Jetta TDI Cup to air on Speed TV starting Dec. 6
green.autoblog.com 13 days ago — Back in October, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI cup wrapped up its second season in fine fashion during the Petit Le Mans weekend at Road Atlanta. While the ten-race series was not broadcast live, cameras from Speed TV were on hand for each event. If you, like most people, missed the races, now ...

Gale Banks breathes on the VW Jetta TDI
green.autoblog.com 10/8/2009 — Gale Banks is a name that should be very familiar to many diesel aficionados. Though Banks and the tuning company that bears his name usually work their magic on the biggest diesel pickups in the country, the technology that makes big rigs capable of pulling houses off their foundations ...

VW clean diesels have best sales month since launch in June
autobloggreen.com 6/3/2009 — May was another dismal month for car sales pretty much everywhere, including Volkswagen. There was however one bright spot at VW: sales of its Jetta TDI. Overall, sales of the Jetta were up 27.6 percent in May and it appears that most of that gain was due to the new Sportwagen and TDI ...

Hoping to snag a Jetta TDI with your clunker cash? Too late!
autobloggreen.com 7/28/2009 — 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sportwagen - click above for high-res image gallery Undoubtedly one of the vehicles could have profited handsomely from this week's expected rush by Americans to unload old gas guzzlers for something more thrifty was Volkswagen's Jetta TDI. With its typical ...

VW Jetta TDI Cup season opener to feature three guest drivers
autobloggreen.com 4/16/2009 — When the second season of Volkswagen's Jetta TDI Cup kicks off next week at VIRginia International Raceway, three guest drivers will join the 30 regulars on the track. Former NASCAR driver Ward Burton's son Jeb will be driving one of the 170 hp diesel powered Jettas along with MSNBC's Dan ...

Jetta TDI spotted doing taxi service in New York City
autobloggreen.com 2/22/2009 — An alert reader in Manhattan recently noticed an unusual new vehicle decked in the yellow paint scheme of a New York cab. This is the first known example of a Volkswagen Jetta TDI doing livery service in the Big Apple. Much has been made of the city's taxi and limousine commission requiring ...

Chicago 2009: Jetta TDI wins Motor Week's Drivers Choice "Best of Year" Award
autobloggreen.com 2/13/2009 — Click to enlarge The Jetta TDI has won the Popular Mechanics' Automotive Excellence Award , the Green Car Journal's 2009 Green Car of the Year and, today in Chicago, Motor Week's Driver's Choice Award for the "Best of the Year." Not a bad ...

Jetta TDI proving tough to find in California
autobloggreen.com 2/23/2009 — Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI In the minds of those in charge of voting for automotive awards , it seems that the new Volkswagen Jetta TDI can do no wrong . Perhaps the same can be said of new car purchasers, depending on where that buyer happens ...

Diesels grab 81% of Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen sales in June
autobloggreen.com 7/1/2009 — General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda and everyone else may not think there is much of a market for mainstream diesel vehicles in the United States, but Volkswagen would beg to differ. Since it launched its new generation diesels last fall in the Jetta and earlier this year in the Touareg, ...

VW Golf GTD may arrive with 170 hp, Jetta TDI Cup replica coming in January
green.autoblog.com 10/8/2009 — 2010 VW Golf GTD - click above for high-res image gallery Several months back, prior to the U.S. launch of the MK VI VW Golf, rumors emerged that the American branch was going to offer the GTD version of the hatchback. For those unfamiliar with the GTD, it is essentially the much-loved ...