What I Drove in 2011: The Year in Cars

We’ve compiled our year in driving in a singular blog post. We drove cars in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Le Mans, France. We drove big cars, we drove small cars. We drove gasoline engines, electric cars and hybrids. We drove 53 cars. We drove 2011 models. We drove 2012 models. And still so many cars left to drive. Gotryke’s Year in Cars: 1. Honda... Read More

Volkswagen x Fender

Jim Resnick combines his interest in  automotive, music recording for Gotryke. Resnick is an award-winning, yet recovering automotive journalist-turned-PR exec and has written extensively about the engineering, the design and the marketing of cars and trucks. Volkswagen — which recently offered skis, bikes and even guitars that plugged into the car’s sound system to... Read More

2012 Volkswagen Eos Unveiled at Design Center California

Collins Reiter covered the debut of the 2012 Volkswagen Eos for Gotryke during the Los Angeles Auto Show hoopla. Volkswagon debuted the first of its 2012 models with the unveiling of the all new Volkswagen Eos convertible at the Design Center California.   GoTryke was on hand at the star studded event on the twentieth anniversary of the design studio. The 2012 Eos embodies... Read More

Regis & Kelly Reward Running in Heels with a Volkswagen Jetta

One agile young woman was rewarded for her win of High-Heel-a-thon in Central Park on “LIVE! with Regis and Kelly.”  Ida Bernstein of Cockeysville, MD finished the 150-yard sprint in 19.12 seconds, setting a new course record. The 26-year-old grad student won the grand prize of an All-New 2011 Volkswagen Jetta and a $10,000 check. Tweet This Post Read More

Custom 1970 VW Dune Buggy x Mojave

Mazda design director Derek Jenkins lives and breathes design. Jenkins shares flicks of his after-work, weekend passion— a vintage-future VW dune buggy that he constructed in his garage. Jenkins, an Orange County native, grew up on the beach, surfing and tinkering with these sort of sand crawlers. He took on his first project at 14. He saved up $1000 from an odd job repairing... Read More

Chewing on the Gas Crunch: Volkswagen R32

This Volkswagen R32 is a randy race car, but probably not the best choice when it comes to driving with a gas-minded conscious. R32 might be a little guy, but it’s one with considerable pep shifting in .2 second. R32 nabs 18 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway — better than a Toureg, but not quite a Prius. That’s the slippery down-slide of the quintessential... Read More