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"Featuring the all-new Volkswagen Golf Family: Golf, Golf TDI, GTI, and e-Golf. 2015 Motor Trend Cars of the Year®. Looks like there’s an award winning Golf for everyone." Here's the youtube video of the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxCTOe2FFA

Since yesterday, I tested the Volkswagen e-Golf. It has no cruise control or distance radar, so I could not test those things. First impressions were great. The vehicle is great to drive, and the regeneration is very effective often requiring actual brake usages only at the very end if at all...

The Volkswagen Group has announced a carbon-offset program for its upcoming 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf electric car and 2016 Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1093702_2015-vw-e-golf-2016-audi-a3-e-tron-get-carbon-offset-program-offer-of-home-solar-systems

So far, the story of Norway is that they love the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV... sales have been high, and demand has been strong for months. July was the first month of deliveries for the Volkswagen e-Golf, and 391 were sold! That put the e-Golf sales at the top of the list, above the BMW i3...

Green Car Reports was able to take a short test drive of the Volkswagen e-Golf in Portland, OR last week. Interesting information on why VW decided not to have active cooling of the battery pack. Full review is here...

Just saw that the quoted weight of the e-Golf is 3,090 lbs according to a test drive report by Green Car Reports done just last week, but it was a euro-spec car as well

The article doesn't cite a source, but since the article is discussing a test drive they took at an official VW test drive event at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, I would assume they are citing information received directly from Volkswagen. RE: the 200lb discrepency, perhaps one weight is a...