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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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Capturing the past and present at Wolfsgart 2018
Nestled in the northern beauty of Vermont lies Burlington, a small town hugging the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. For one weekend each summer, this small town becomes the travel spot for Volkswagen enthusiasts around the northeast region. The attraction: Wolfsgart. Celebrating all varieties of European makes and models, Wolfsgart’s roots trace back to Volkswagen and to this day a large majority of the event is focused on the love of the People’s Car. This year, Volkswagen attended Wol
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