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A hard ride for a good cause: Ride On for Red Nose Day

Imagine biking nearly 400 miles in four days through the mountains and deserts of Nevada and southern California, burning through as many as 20 bottles of water each day during your eight to 10 hours on two wheels – just for fun. It’s not a spin class gone horribly wrong. It’s one of two long-distance rides hosted by professional racing cyclist and bike enthusiast, Tim Johnson to raise money and awareness for this year’s Red Nose Day event, called Ride on For Red Nose Day powered by Walgreen’

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Unleashing the Rrrrr-roar of the Golf Rs at WITW

For one weekend in April each year, the small village of Fontana, North Carolina, hosts a gathering of Volkswagen friends and owners casually known as WITW. What ties these cars together, apart from the VW badge, is that their engines all produce a beloved exhaust note. This year I joined over 100 of these special cars for some fun, both in the village and on the famous roads that surround it. The Golf R32 and Golf R cars have been a staple in the VW enthusiast community ever since the first

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Going the extra 4,000 miles to Wörthersee

The task at hand seemed insurmountable: transport a 1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin from Pottstown, Penn., to Lake Wörthersee, Austria for the annual Wörthersee Festival -- with less than 72 hours of notice. But the U.S. Volkswagen Logistics team found a way to get one VW enthusiast and his car to the largest yearly gathering of Volkswagen and Audi fans in the world. The annual festival at Lake Wörthersee is a must for VW enthusiasts, and this year they were celebrating two anniversaries; the

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Eleven miles, 318 curves: Watch VW Golf R owners tame the Dragon

For the past 11 years, Volkswagen Golf R and R32 owners have gathered on the North Carolina/Tennessee border to enjoy some of the country’s most beautiful scenery and mountain roads surrounding the famous “Tail of the Dragon” – U.S. Route 129. The road’s 318 curves over some 11 miles draws a steady crowd of driving enthusiasts. Earlier this year, Sean Maynard, a specialist in experiential marketing at Volkswagen of America, attended the event and invited his friend, and new Mk7 Golf R owner,

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