The first big GTG of the year (with nice weather) for Projekt German happened on March 25th. We had about 10 cars and 15-20 people there throughout the day. Cadwiz lives just outside the city so we had a lot of room to park all of the cars and lounge about enjoying the weather. This [...]

Coming up in April is the semi-annual GTG up in Albert Lea. The first GTG was about 6 months ago and it was a blast!
WHERE: Edgewater Park in Albert Lea, MN Click for a Google Map
WHEN: Saturday, April 21st
WHO: Any VW, AUDI, or BMW guys, or whoever else wants to come. From anywhere [...]

On my local German car forum we have a thread about ridiculous-looking cars. This latest submission just came in from one of our members a few days back. The culprit is a Mk4 Jetta and result is awful. This car has altezza tail lights, green vinyl all over the once-nice silver paint, [...]

Today I hit the jackpot! On my way out to the apartment complex dumpster with a bag of trash, I spotted something at the top of the pile. Now I’m not one to dumpster dive, but I had to after seeing what lay inside. As I lifted the lid, there sat a [...]

The results are in!  APTuning released the names and specs for winners of their dyno day this past Saturday.
Naturally Aspirated- Zack Slothower MK4 GTI VR6 24v 175whp 178wtq
OEM Forced Induction- Josh Thomas MK4 GTI 1.8T 201whp 257wtq
Aftermarket Forced Induction- David Malesky MK2 GTI 2.0T 196whp 239wtq
R32- Dan Donmoyer ‘04 R32 240whp 224wtq
It’s very cool to [...]

Stumbling through Trunk Society and VWvortex tonight (or is it this morning since its after midnight?) I came across a couple threads about the Ultimate Dubs 2007 show in the UK. Ultimate Dubs took place at the Telford International Centre in Shropshire, UK on March 11, 2007. The show featured over 200 of the [...]

This past Saturday saw swarms of Volkswagens at the APTuning Dyno Day event in Lebanon, PA. APTuning is a performance shop in Pennsylvania that specializes in Volkswagen and Audi tuning. They are distributors for many industry-leading VW/Audi performance parts manufacturers and have recently expanded their offerings to include routine service, maintenance, state safety [...]

While doing a search for “Mk3” on Technorati this morning, I came across a blog by Maxxd. Maxxd is a “Modified Car Enthusiast Network” based in the UK. It was started in 2002 by Dave Unwin and Oliver Mooney as an online solution to the lack of friendly, properly organized modified car clubs in [...]

As each brand of car has a following, each model within that lineup also has its own fans. What is special about Volkswagen is that you can separate those followers into even smaller segments by breaking each model down into the different years of production. The Golf and the Jetta are two of [...]