Pacific Volkswagen News and Events

LAcarGUY Supports Heal The Bay’s “Bring Back the Beach” Fundraiser (And you should too!)

Posted on: May 10, 2012

Timelapse of Pacific VW’s custom PINK Beetle

Posted on: May 4, 2012

To show our support for breast cancer awareness and research, we custom wrapped a brand new 2012 Beetle in pink! When this pink beauty is sold, we will donate $500 to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer began in 1993 and has raised over $450 million to help fight against breast cancer. For the last two years, LAcarGUY has been a close partner with Making Strides and we look forward to continuing our partnership for many years to come.

Mike Sullivan To Be Awarded With Community Environmental Leadership Award From Global Green USA

Posted on: April 30, 2012

LAcarGUY‘s Mike Sullivan will be honored at the 16th Annual Millennium Awards Gala in Saturday June 2nd at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica with the Community Environment Leadership Award.

This honor recognizes Mike’s personal commitment to supporting so many important local environmental organizations and for actively promoting community projects from beach cleanups to creating school gardens. When Global Green needed hybrid cars for their Red Carpet – Green Car campaign (i.e., taking stars to the Oscars in fuel efficient cars), Mike provided them.

Look Out for Volkswagen’s Think Blue® Tour Coming to LA

Posted on: March 23, 2012

Just days ago, Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced its 15-stop Think Blue® Tour which will feature an interactive mobile display and activity center that was created to educate the public about ecological sustainability and fuel-efficient technologies. The tour will travel throughout the U.S. from April through to December 2012 at locations that best represent different aspects of the Volkswagen Think Blue philosophy. These include major environmental summits and public policy conferences to cycling competitions and outdoor music festivals.

“This tour is a great way to demonstrate our Think Blue philosophy, which is at the heart of the Volkswagen brand,” said Jonathan Browning, president and CEO, Volkswagen Group of America. “We are incredibly excited to offer consumers a unique experience that not only showcases Volkswagen’s fuel-efficient product range and manufacturing, but also engages them in fun games and activities that reinforce individual action and eco-friendly behavior.”

Volkswagen will be practicing what it preaches as the tour will be driven by a high-efficiency cab and 53-foot trailer. At each stop, Volkswagen will display a range of fuel-efficient vehicles, including the all-new 2013 Jetta Hybrid, E-Golf prototype, and the Passat TDI® Clean Diesel.

LAcarGUY at LA Weekly’s Gold Standard Event

Posted on: March 23, 2012

Earlier this month, LAcarGUY proudly sponsored the 4th Annual Gold Standard Food & Wine Event that featured a diverse selection of LA’s best restaurants, hand picked by Pulitzer Prize winning food critic, Jonathan Gold.

The event was held at the Peterson Auto Museum, and as he is known for his unprecedented taste and appreciation of the varied and diverse cuisines in the area, Jonathan brought together some of his favorites. And the reviews are in! From the Huffington Post to LA Mag to local blogs like Chowhound, they all agree that the Gold Standard is the best food event in LA! On the hottest day of the year so far, 2000 attendees ate and drank their way through the best that LA has to offer.

Plug-in Hybrid Volkswagen Golf Expected in 2015

Posted on: February 23, 2012

by Zack McDonald: HybridCars.com

Slated to debut for 2015, Volkswagen says that its seventh-generation Golf will feature a slew of powertrain options—including a plug-in hybrid version that Auto Express recently rated 5-stars after briefly driving an early prototype. The plug-in hybrid Golf will join the forthcoming 2013 VW Blue E-Motion electric as one of two electric-drive variants on the carmaker’s most popular vehicle.

Volkswagen Introduces “Golf R Drivers Forever” iPad App

Posted on: January 18, 2012

With the arrival of its performance icon to LAcarGUY dealerships this month, Volkswagen announced today that it is bringing the all-new 2012 Golf R to a mass audience via an iPad® app. Created with the enthusiast community in mind, the “Golf R Drivers Forever” app provides access to everything one needs to know about the Golf R. From the history of the popular Golf model and the community that rallies around it, to the focused engineers of Volkswagen, this app covers it all.

Told through the perspective of Volkswagen enthusiasts and drivers who helped bring this car to the United States, the app provides an interactive narrative on the evolution of the Golf from its days as the Rabbit in the 1970’s all the way to the present 2012 Golf R model. Filled with exclusive interviews, articles and footage, this is one app all Volkswagen fans will want to interact with.

Volkswagen E-Bugster Plug-in Brings Impressive Charging and Battery Advancements

Posted on: January 12, 2012

By Laurent J. Masson
PluginCars.com

To some onlookers, the Volkswagen E-Bugster concept unveiled at the North American International Auto Show was a disappointment. As we say in French, this E-Bugster is déjà vu. We’ve seen it before. Really. Seven years ago, exactly at the same place, Volkswagen unveiled the Ragster concept, which looked pretty much the same. After so much time, you might assume this E-Bugster is a production model, but it isn’t. It’s another concept.

Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Plant Achieves LEED Platinum Certification

Posted on: December 9, 2011

Volkswagen’s Chattanooga manufacturing plant has been awarded platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) green building certification program. This makes VW the first automaker to reach the notoriously difficult, highest level of LEED certification.

To earn LEED certification, the project must satisfy all prerequisites and qualify for a minimum number of points to attain the established ratings. Once the basic prerequisites of the program are satisfied, applicant projects are then rated according to their degree of compliance within the rating system. The Green Building Council rates structures based on their environmental impact and other criteria such as energy and water consumption, use of raw materials, and recycling rates. Certifications are awarded according to the following scale:

Join LAcarGUY For The 22nd Annual Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks

Posted on: December 7, 2011

Join LAcarGUY for the 22nd Annual Manhattan Beach Fireworks on Sunday December 11th. While the fireworks kick off at 7PM, there are plenty of activites for the whole family before they start.

From 4PM until 6:30 there will be a Snow Park for the kids featuring five 50 foot runs, two snow play areas and Snowmen ready for family photos.