Three people were feared dead after their car, a blue volkswagen Jetta salon car, marked PJ 132 KJA, plunged into the Lagoon on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos, Monday night.

The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI is named Green Car of the Year on Thursday at the L.A. Auto Show, marking the first time a diesel has won the award.

THE bloated corpse of a yet-to-be-identified middle-aged man was yesterday pulled out of the Oworonshoki end of the Lagos lagoon where a car plunged into it on Monday. The car, a blue Volkswagen Jetta saloon with number plate Lagos PJ 132 KJA …

LOS ANGELES — The 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI was named Green Car of the Year Thursday, the first time a diesel has won the award. The 41-mpg TDI beat out a pair of hybrids, a sporty clean-diesel sedan, and the trendy little Smart ForTwo, to take top …

LOS ANGELES — The conventional wisdom that ultra-environmental vehicles must be either tiny and impractical or festooned with expensive hybrid technology got a kick in the teeth as the diesel-powered Volkswagen Jetta TDI won the Green Car of the …

LOS ANGELES — The conventional wisdom that ultra-environmental vehicles must be either tiny and impractical or festooned with expensive hybrid technology got a kick in the teeth as the diesel-powered Volkswagen Jetta TDI won the Green Car of the Year award Thursday at the Los Angeles auto show.

VW Jetta TDI gets on stage to accept its award. (Credit: CBS Interactive) LOS ANGELES– The Green Car Journal gave its 2009 Green Car of the Year award to the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. This year’s list of nominees …

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Green Car Journal named Volkswagen’s 2009 Jetta TDI as the «Green Car of the Year» at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Thursday, making it the first clean-diesel vehicle to win the prize. Green Car Journal, a quarterly magazine that …