Happy New Year From World Volkswagen!

 

 About World Volkswagen:
World Volkswagen is the fastest growing Volkswagen store on the Jersey Shore. Located just west of exit 100 of the Garden State Parkway, we have a complete selection of new and used cars and trucks ready for immediate delivery!! Each car goes through a rigorous 118 point inspection, road test, and a complete detail. Then we price them thousands less then our competitors! Still too much? Our prices are negotiable, and we will gladly consider your offer! Call us today at (732) 918-1380 for a no obligation demonstration and test drive! Visit our website at www.JerseyShoreAutos.com, for our complete inventory and for finance and lease options on the vehicle of your choice! 

World Volkswagen Dealership Coming to Route 37 East

For many years, a staple observation of a cruise down Route 37 in Toms River has been the sight of automobile dealerships of almost every major make on the market. That lineup is due to welcome a new addition to Route 37 East, next to Tiffany’s, in the form of World Volkswagen.

According to Toms River Township Planner Jay Lynch, several of the variance applications that have come before township officials in the prior year have been from Lester Glenn dealers, in addition to ones from Gateway Toyota, Pine Belt Nissan, and this one from Volkswagen.

“It seems car dealers like to be located near each other, for when prospective customers go car shopping. When people go out, they want to come to a place where they can see a lot of cars in one general location,” Lynch commented. “Toms River is becoming an attractive area for this particular type of business.”
Lynch said that he had seen a similar pattern of automobile dealerships choosing to be located in a similar area in both Manahawkin and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

“The industry has spawned this trend among many (car) dealers,” Lynch noted.

Lynch commented that automobile dealerships are “attractive businesses” which benefit other ones nearby such as restaurants and the like – insomuch that people who come out to look for a car often spend several hours on that task, and they will likely stick around for a meal or other forms of business or entertainment in the area.

“Ratables are stabilized with successful businesses, and car dealers don’t have peak hours like employment centers do. In other words, people aren’t shopping for cars during daily rush hours – they’re usually shopping on their off-hours, so it’s a great use for business that is off peak hours,” Lynch explained.

By Nick Malfitano
December 29, 2011
Source: Patch.com

About World Volkswagen:

World Volkswagen is the fastest growing Volkswagen store on the Jersey Shore. Located just west of exit 100 of the Garden State Parkway, we have a complete selection of new and used cars and trucks ready for immediate delivery!! Each car goes through a rigorous 118 point inspection, road test, and a complete detail. Then we price them thousands less then our competitors! Still too much? Our prices are negotiable, and we will gladly consider your offer! Call us today at 1-(732) 918-1380 for a no obligation demonstration and test drive! Visit our website at www.JerseyShoreAutos.com, for our complete inventory and for finance and lease options on the vehicle of your choice!

Volkswagen Aims for Cleaner Plants by 2018

Author: Faye Sunderland, December 29, 2011
Filed under: Volkswagen

Car giant, Volkswagen has set itself an ambitious target of making its plants more sustainable by cutting their environmental impact by 25 per cent by 2018.

The car maker’s factories must reduce their energy consumption, waste volumes, air-borne emissions, water consumption and carbon dioxide emissions to meet the target which will compare performance in 2010 to 2018. Part of the brand’s ‘Think Blue’ environmental strategy, all the brand’s passenger car plants will be expected to meet the sustainability goal.

"Through the growing efficiency and productivity of our plants, the Volkswagen brand is already making a key contribution to the achievements of Group strategic targets for 2018. However, we are going a step further: by 2018, we intend to make production at all our plants 25 per cent more environmentally compatible," said Hubert Waltl, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand with responsibility for Production and Logistics.


"Sustainable, efficient production is a clear competitive advantage," added Prof. Werner Neubauer, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen brand with responsibility for Components. "With its "Think Blue. Factory." Initiative, the Volkswagen brand is pursuing a clear strategy which pools all environmental activities at our plants throughout the world. Our ambitious targets for sustainable vehicle production have now been defined in a way which is clear and comprehensible for our customers."

The ‘Think Blue. Factory’  includes key measures in the area of vehicle production. The programme, which is concerned with efficiency improvements in production addresses all employees at the plants. In future, approaches for reducing energy consumption in production will be honoured by the Volkswagen Energy Cup at an annual ‘Think Blue. Factory’ day.

Only a few weeks ago, the new Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga, Tennessee, was the first automobile factory worldwide to receive platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. Platinum certification confirms compliance with the most demanding standards for sustainable, environmentally compatible production.

About World Volkswagen:

World Volkswagen is the fastest growing Volkswagen store on the Jersey Shore. Located just west of exit 100 of the Garden State Parkway, we have a complete selection of new and used cars and trucks ready for immediate delivery!! Each car goes through a rigorous 118 point inspection, road test, and a complete detail. Then we price them thousands less then our competitors! Still too much? Our prices are negotiable, and we will gladly consider your offer! Call us today at 1-(732) 918-1380 for a no obligation demonstration and test drive! Visit our website at www.JerseyShoreAutos.com, for our complete inventory and for finance and lease options on the vehicle of your choice!

Black Friday Sales Event

The holidays are upon us and World Volkswagen is hosting their annual Black Friday Sales Event. This weekend only, World Volkswagen is offering a unique opportunity to combine Black Friday discounts with the Volkswagen Sign Then Drive Event.  With a combination of the two, it’s never been easier to get into a new Volkswagen. Because for a limited time, you can get any new model Volkswagen for practically just your signature.

That includes the iconic and completely reinvented all-new Beetle with a host of exceptional features, including Bluetooth^® technology and available Fender^™ Premium Audio System.^** Or the stylish and more spacious all-new Passat, featuring a luxurious interior and optional TDI^® Clean Diesel engine. And the new Tiguan that sports a gorgeous, refreshed exterior and standard turbocharged engine.

But you’ve got to hurry in because the Black Friday savings are only happening this weekend, and the Sign Then Drive deals will be gone before the ink is dry.

If you’re interested in finding out more, don’t hesitate to call upon the staff at World Volkswagen to facilitate all your vehicular inquiries. World Volkswagen is located at 4075 Route 33, in Neptune, New Jersey. They have a huge inventory of New and Certified Pre-owned Volkswagens, as well as many late model used cars, like Toyotas, Hondas, and more. Make sure to find them on Facebook and Twitter for exclusive deals and giveaways!  Das Auto!

World Volkswagen:

732-922-1500

www.worldvw.net

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/worldvolkswagen

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/worldvw

2012 Volkswagen Passat Claims Motor Trend's Car of the Year Award!

If Car of the Year juries were seated like criminal trial juries, Volkswagen's lawyers might have used up their peremptory challenges dismissing the lot of us. They'd claim we had been poisoned by the launch coverage of the company's supersized Yank-tank B7-generation Passat. Harsh auto-show lighting made the car look like a freshened version of Chevy's little-loved Impala; early punditry slammed the interior as drab, plain, and cheap-looking; and news that the moaning I-5 we loathe in the Golf-class cars would be the mainstream engine seemed like strike three. Making things worse were VW's concurrently announced plans for world domination, which, combined with the above impressions, seemed to suggest that VW was saying "Vee unterschtand zat to sell lots of zees cahs to you fat Dummkopfs, zay need to be bland like Camry."

 

Unlike GM and Ford, which are consolidating regional platforms and introducing world cars, Volkswagen's larger new Passat will sell only in North America and China. The car and the strategy raise serious questions: Can an American-born-and-bred Passat be German enough to please the VW faithful? Can anything with a VW badge pry large numbers of people out of their Accords and Camrys? Can such conservative styling turn the heads of the legions on their way to Hyundai? Out on the test track, in the high-desert sunshine, three Passats spanning the range of powertrain and trim levels did their best to answer these questions, presenting evidence in each of our six criteria and gradually whittling away at our editorial preconceptions. Let's read the court testimony. 

ADVANCEMENT IN DESIGN

Granted, from 50 feet or in a two-dimensional photograph, the Passat engages the eye less than does the splashy "fluidic design" of the Hyundai Sonata, but closer inspection reveals exquisite detailing. Our own expert witness, Tom Gale, gets the ball rolling: "The package provides good accommodation, and like the Audi [A6], what is remarkable is the restraint shown with the handling of the design. Clean, beautiful surfaces have been refined for an engaging result. The upper character line, with its subtle undercut, is an example of the care taken with the stampings throughout." Engineering guru Chris Theodore found the exterior "tastefully executed with really tight shut lines and nice detailing." The result is sort of a time-release appeal that blossoms upon close scrutiny or when hand-washing the vehicle. It's a less flashy design than the Sonata's, but way more cohesive than the Accord's.

There's nothing trendy going on inside, either, which may let it age more gracefully than bolder designs. Gale admits the design "breaks little new ground, but the grain, gloss levels, and material choices are tasteful." He and others criticized the choice to prioritize the dash vents over the multifunction display, the low placement of which looks dated and represents an ergonomic back-step. Ditto the fiddly turn-signal-stalk cruise controls and the entertainment system's lack of a USB port (Bluetooth and an SD card are supported, and there's a 1/8-inch aux jack). But the car's functions can be intuitively controlled without consulting the owners' manual -- something Accord owners may appreciate.

ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE

OK, the engineers among us dislike odd-numbered cylinder counts like this 2.5-liter's, but Theodore grudgingly admitted, "It's the best-tamed VW I-5 application ever. The thrashiness has been masked, and the engine is very quiet. A fine choice for middle America in real-world driving conditions." Your technical director's log reads: "This 2.5 appears to have finally found a good home," with praise for strong launch torque that keeps pace with the competition to 30 mph thanks to short gearing (its 9.0-second 0-60 time trails the competition notably).

 

Characterizations of the engine note ranged from "moaning" to "unique growl," but the general consensus was that the powertrain integration team earned its kibble. Sure, we wish it were a sprightlier sprinter, but we expect a direct-injected and/or turbocharged four-cylinder replacement to arrive soon.

The turbodiesel found no detractors. "Hands down, my favorite," declared product expert Jim Hall. "This diesel puts the hybrids on the trailer," said Lassa. "Pulls this car around so easily, and gives you 600 plus miles to a tank," added Evans. Pair this clean diesel with "one of the best twin-clutch transmissions in the business," said Theodore, and you've got a green car "without the compromises the mainstream green vehicles impose -- a true technological achievement." And for those who need more power, the compact VR6 teams with that same twin-clutch automatic to deliver class-stomping acceleration to 60 mph in just 5.7 seconds.

EFFICIENCY

It should surprise no one that over the course of 11 mixed-driving loops, our diesel Passat recorded the highest fuel economy stats of this year's finalists at 34.3 mpg. Perhaps more interesting was the base 2.5-liter's fifth-best 26.5 mpg -- that's exactly halfway between the EPA city and highway ratings of 22/31 mpg. That's higher within its EPA-predicted economy range than any other finalist managed, and the second highest was the TDI/DSG at 43 percent of its 30/40-mpg points spread (we didn't run the VR6 on our fuel-economy loops). This bodes exceptionally well for real-world achievability of the Passat's window-sticker numbers. Not penurious enough with the petrol? Opt for the base five-speed manual in the SE to eke out one more highway mpg, or the six-speed manual TDI to earn an even better 31/43 mpg.

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SAFETY

Like every new car in the segment, the Passat gets six airbags to cushion the occupants if it all goes wrong, plus stability control, tire-pressure monitoring, ABS, brake-assist, and myriad other electronic aids to prevent things from going wrong in the first place. But what's more fun to talk about under the safety rubric is how well the Passat's chassis is tuned to keep it out of trouble, because well-driven, agile cars are less likely to plow into things than poorly controlled, flabby, clumsy ones.

Lassa enthused, "Chassis, steering, ride, and handling all are tastiest within this mostly taste-free vanilla segment." Reynolds proclaimed the Passat "substantially more integrated and driver-attuned than the Camry. In the figure eight, its braking, turn-in, cornering, and exit are all fluidly linkable with less roll and better road feel." Indeed, despite slower acceleration and slightly worse braking performance relative to the base Camry, the Passat SE circulated our figure-eight course 0.4 second quicker at the same 0.60g average. This confirms Reynolds' impressions, proving that the VW corners far stronger than the Toyota. "Steering feels perfectly weighted for this car." Driven against three market-equivalent examples of the sales-leading Camry, this Yankee Doodle Vee-Dub evinced 100-percent German DNA with better body-motion control, less tire noise, and more eager dynamics in every situation. In short, it drives way smaller and more scintillatingly than it looks.

 

VALUE

 
Here's where VW's $4-billion Chatta-nooga plant investment pays off for U.S. buyers -- by insulating us from the strong Euro currency that forced the outgoing Passat 2.0T to sell as a Eurochic niche player, base priced at a heady $27,945. That kind of money will buy a nice TDI nowadays, while the mainstream 2.5 SE opens at $20,765. Thirty grand buys a range-topping VR6 that handily out-chics and out-streaks the old EuroPassat, not to mention the V-6 or turbo variants of its family-sedan competitors.

 

Ownership costs are also further suppressed by VW's Carefree Maintenance Program, which picks up the tab for all scheduled stops during the 3-year/36,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty.

 

Of course, in the back of our skeptical minds was a nagging impression that VW quality and reliability lag those of Toyota and Honda, eroding the long-term value proposition. Apart from a dash buzz in one of our test cars, we found no evidence to support this collective prejudice, and Volkswagen officials argue that perception is lagging reality on the quality front. Prototype testing and evaluation have been stepped up dramatically in recent years, and a recent J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Index poll suggests it's paying off. Asked what percentage of their trips to the dealer were for repair versus maintenance, respondents ranked VW seventh at 31 percent -- that's tied with Infiniti, two spots back from Honda (25 percent), and above both Nissan (34) and Toyota (43).

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PERFORMANCE OF INTENDED FUNCTION

It's in this category the bigger Passat really shines. Its family-schlepping credentials are impressive. With nearly 49 cubic feet of rear-seat space, "I can comfortably cross my legs while sitting behind a driver seat set to my 5-foot 11-inch height," noted Loh. Jurnecka proclaimed it "like a limo in back -- a great budget Audi." Add to this a usefully cubic 15.9-cubic-foot trunk with split-folding seats and set it all down on a chassis with the moves to make an enthusiast smile, and we've got a pretty interesting new dog in the midsize-sedan fight.

As for our jury? The verdict is in: Volkswagen's less-boring-than-it-looks, 100-percent-German-driving Passat is Motor Trend's Car of the Year.

CLOSEST VOTE EVER

 
Editor-in-chief MacKenzie always asks his 10 fellow COTY judges for their top three picks. This year, the voting was tied 5-5 (with one errant vote) between the Passat and Chrysler's 300. It was still tied after a count of second-place votes, and the Passat eked ahead only after third-place votes had been counted. Two worthy cars. But there can be only one...

Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/1201_2012_motor_trend_car_of_the_year_volkswagen_passat/viewall.html#ixzz1e4naWtW2

Source: www.MotorTrend.com

World Volkswagen Annual Toys for Tots Drive

For Immediate Release:
 

It’s that time of year again… World Volkswagen is hosting the annual Toys for Tots drive at their dealership located in Neptune, NJ. The staff at World Volkswagen is proud to support the local chapter of Toys for Tots and has set up a donation center in their showroom. Starting today, you can bring in all your donations to the World Volkswagen donation center at 4075 Route 33 in Neptune, NJ.

Toys for Tots is a program backed by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which collects and donates toys to underprivileged children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas. Toys for Tots was founded in 1947 by Major William L. Hendricks when his wife could not find an organization to donate a doll to a needy child. Since then, the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, a 501 charity, serves to support and raise funds for the program.

World Volkswagen also takes pride in giving back to the community in as many ways as possible. They are a corporation committed to education, economic development, and humanitarian advancement. Their past community involvement involves sponsorship of numerous scholarship awards, charity events, community events, sporting teams, and various other local organizations.

To show support for Toys for Tots and World Volkswagen please bring a new, unwrapped toy to drop off to their dealership. Or those wanting to help financially instead can visit http://www.toysfortots.org to make a cash donation. For more information about World Volkswagen including hours of operation and directions, please visit their website at www.WorldVW.com.

World Volkswagen sells and services new Volkswagens, as well as many other late model vehicles. They have a huge inventory of New and Certified Pre-owned Volkswagens, as well as many late model used cars, like Toyotas, Hondas, BMW and more. Make sure to find them on Facebook and Twitter for exclusive deals and giveaways. 

World Volkswagen:

4075 Route 33

Neptune, NJ 07753

732-922-1500

www.worldvw.net

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/worldvolkswagen

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/worldvw

World Volkswagen Participating in Monmouth & Ocean County Food Drive

For Immediate Release:

For the third year in a row, you can drop off your non-perishable food items at World Volkswagen in Neptune , New Jersey.  Located at 4075 Route 33,  just west of the Garden State Parkway, the dealer recognizes the needs of others in these tough times.  Gino Dellomo, General Sales Manager of the dealership and a long-time resident in the area says, "At no time is it more important than now to help those less fortunate than ourselves.  World Volkswagen is committed to this community and its people."

The FoodBank began in 1984 when three people saw hunger at the Jersey shore and decided to make a difference. They purchased a small, dilapidated warehouse in Spring Lake. Carpenters, masons and other members of the community donated work, office furniture and supplies. Food streamed in from hundreds of donors. After one year, the FoodBank was serving 25 charities with 100,000 pounds of food.

Ten years later, nearly two million pounds of food was being distributed annually from the same small warehouse. Bursting at the seams, the FoodBank undertook a capital campaign in 1998 to construct a new facility in Neptune. Three years later, the current 40,000 sq. ft facility became a reality.
Today, the FoodBank serves over 270 pantries, soup kitchens and other feeding programs with over 5 million pounds of food annually.

World Volkswagen is a socially responsible corporation committed to education, economic development, and humanitarian advancement. We try to get involved with and support as many community involved organizations as possible. We are always looking for exciting new opportunities that allow us to get involved and we look forward to giving back to the community as much as possible.

World Volkswagen is located at 4075 Route 33, in Neptune, New Jersey. They have a huge inventory of New and Certified Pre-owned Volkswagens, as well as many late model used cars, like Toyotas, Hondas, and more. Make sure to find them on Facebook and Twitter for exclusive deals and giveaways!  Das Auto!

World Volkswagen Teams Up With Continental Tire & Magellan GPS

World Volkswagen has teamed up with Continental Tire and Magellan GPS, allowing them to offer their customers this fantastic package deal on new tires. From September 1, 2011 until October 15, 2011 you will be eligible to receive a free Magellan GPS navigation unit with the purchase of a set of 4 new Continental Tires totaling $499 or more. Contact World Volkswagen today for more details!

If you’re interested in finding out more, don’t hesitate to call upon the staff at World Volkswagen to facilitate all your vehicular inquiries. World Volkswagen is located at 4075 Route 33, in Neptune, New Jersey. They have a huge inventory of New and Certified Pre-owned Volkswagens, as well as many late model used cars, like Toyotas, Hondas, and more. Make sure to find them on Facebook and Twitter for exclusive deals and giveaways!  Das Auto!

World Volkswagen

732-922-1500

www.worldvw.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/worldvolkswagen

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/worldvw