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We're not entirely sure that this Chinese print ad for the Volkswagen GTI is for real -- and if it is, we're even less sure what it might be saying. The copy along the bottom translates as "It will go fast". That could mean "It will go so fast that you'll spill all that hot, delicious coffee from McDonald's right in your lap". Or it could mean, "Yes, the GTI will go fast, but not fast enough to get to that rest area in time". Either way, something's gotten lost on the road to translation. [Copyranter]

Introduced as a 2004 model, the Touareg sport utility vehicle was Volkswagen's first foray into SUVs, and its most expensive vehicle at the time. Now VW will unveil a redesigned, second-generation 2011 Volkswagen Touareg at January's Detroit Auto Show.

The Touareg shares a basic platform with the high performance Porsche Cayenne SUV, itself being renewed for 2011, and the Audi Q7, which uses a longer wheelbase for greater interior room. All three vehicles are being redesigned at the same time.

The 2011 Touareg will include a hybrid model in the lineup, its first, along with a TDI clean-diesel model. TheCarConnection drove the current 2009...

It's no secret that Volkswagen plans to kill off the Passat and replace it with a larger, purpose-built-for-Americans midsize sedan codenamed, in a fit of startling creativity, the New Midsize Sedan, or NMS. But what the NMS will look like has been left to little more than monochrome watercolors and line-art sketches so far.

That is, until Brazilian designer Irmao do Decio put mouse to pixel and came up with this rendering. Of course, it's completely unofficial and theoretical, but his methods are sound enough to give us an idea of what may be in the works.

Building on the base of the latest official sketch, do Decio then took inspiration...