The GTI starts at $33,670 (all prices include a $1,225 destination charge), and the Golf R’s base price is $48,325.

Unlike Volkswagen, neither Porsche nor Audi currently assembles vehicles in North America. Audi's two main rivals, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, build vehicles in the U.S., in Tuscaloosa, Alabama ...

Volkswagen was doing relatively well sales-wise in the US. The company, then the fourth-largest automaker in the world, reported roughly 330,000 deliveries in 2006, up 5,9 percent over the ...