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Volkswagen Adds Automated Manual Gearbox Option to UK Market Up!

Buyers in Britain now have the option of ordering the Volkswagen Up! city car with a new automated manual gearbox (ASG).

Priced at £595, the five-speed semi-automatic transmission is available on both three- and five-door (60PS) Move up! and (75PS) High up! models, excluding the BlueMotion Technology versions.

Volkswagen Adds More Practical Five Door Model to Up!'s UK Lineup

Prices for the five-door body style of the Volkswagen up! have been announced for the UK market. The new Up! 5d costs £365 more than the less practical but otherwise identical three-door model, with on-the-road prices starting from £8,360.

Volkswagen expects that the five-door models will make up just over half of all up! sales.

Volkswagen to Develop Two Crossover Models Based on the Polo and the Up!, Says Report

Two more crossover models could soon join the ranks of the compact Tiguan and the mid-size Touareg in Volkswagen's lineup, according to a report from German business publication, Handelsblatt.

Citing unnamed company sources, the newspaper wrote that a subcompact crossover built on the underpinnings of the Polo, which would potentially go up against the Nissan Juke and Opel Mokka, as well as an even smaller model based on the Up! city car, are "certain".