Watch the video to learn more about the Food Drive donation.

The community Food Bank not only distributes food, it offers addition programs to support the local community from providing education and training to help people with low incomes meet their needs. Visit their website to learn more: ‪http://www.njfoodbank.org/‬

Douglas Volkswagen as part of the Douglas Auto Group collected 738 lbs of Food which will provide 615 meals to the community.

The winners from our Food Drive Raffle were as follows:

• Grand Prize 16GB iPad2 Winner Chris Sinunu from Summit, NJ
• 2nd Place Free Full Car Detail Winner Emma S. from Summit, NJ
• 3rd Place Free Oil Change/Tire Rotation Winner Stephen Woitsky of New Providence, NJ

Congratulations to our winners and thanks again for your generosity.

Douglas Volkswagen has launched a Holiday Food Drive campaign to support the Community Food Bank of NJ located in Hillside during the 2011 Holiday Season.

The Douglas VW team encourages the local community to stop by their VW Dealership in NJ and donate 2 Cans of Food.

The Douglas VW Holiday Fill “ER Up Food Drive is going on from now until December 21, 2011

For your donation of 2 cans of Food, you’ll be entered to win some special Douglas VW prizes from the Douglas Auto Group.

What can you win during the December 22, 2011 Drawing??? 

• 1st Place Winner will receive an Apple iPad
• 2nd Place Winner will receive a Full Car Detail
• 3rd Place Winner will receive a Free Oil Change/Tire Rotation

Visit Us Today at 430 Morris Avenue in Summit NJ and Help us Fill Up The Douglas VW Van and make our donation to the Community Food Bank of NJ a success!

Our NJ VW Dealership has been receiving the New 2012 VW Passats and so the team at Douglas VW put together a walkthrough of one of the 2012 VW Passats in NJ. (see below) The 2012 Volkswagen Passats have been full re-engineered from the interior to the exterior to engine enhancements along with a reduction in starting price to make it more affordable.

Did you know that the 2012 VW Passat is built in the United States? The 2012 Passats are actually built in Chattanooga, Tennessee. As seen by the video below, this 2012 VW Passat keeps it’s German characteristics and has not been Americanized by being produced in the United States.

Watch Douglas VW’s video below on the 2012 Volkswagen Passat NJ Walk-Through and Review.

The 2012 VW Passat surpassed it’s competitions in the Auto industry based on ratings received in 6 Categories and was named Motor Trend’s Car of the Year. Some characteristics of the 2012 Passat are mentioned below:

• Advancement in Design
  • Trendy and Engaging Re-designed Look to the 2012 VW Passat
• Engineering Excellence
  • 2.5 Liter Engine & Turbodiesel applications
• Efficiency
  • The 2012 Diesel Passat averaged 34.3 MPGs and the 2.5 Liter averaged 26.5 MGPs
• Safety
  • Six AirBags, Stability Control, ABS, Brake-Assist-, Tire-Pressure Monitoring,
• Car Value
  • Reduced starting price of the 2012 VW Passat by producing it within the United States at the VW Tennessee plant.
• Performance Engineering (Of Intended Function)
  • Improved Interior Space with 49 Cubic Feet of Rear-Seat Space and 15.9 Cubic-Foot Trunk with Folding Down Seats

The new 2012 Volkswagen Passat has been noted for having one of the most spacious interiors among it’s class with a variety of powertrain options to suit customers in NJ, NY, PA or CT based on their commuting requirements and living lifestyles. Douglas VW, an established VW NJ Dealership serving VW Passat customers in North, Central, and South Jersey as well as the Jersey Shore.

We are glad to help you with this How-To Video on how to program your iPhone, Blackberry, Android or other smartphone to your Volkswagen’s Bluetooth System.

Just watch this 2 Minute How-To Video on how to pair your Bluetooth phone with your new 2012 Volkswagen car. Our Master VW Sales Rep, Chris Ng, demonstrates how to setup Bluetooth on the new 2012 Volkswagen cars, crossovers, and suvs.

Contact us with your bluetooth questions

Bluetooth questions

Bluetooth Setup explanation is for the 2012 VW NJ Models which include:

• 2012 VW Beetle
• 2012 VW CC
• 2012 VW EOS
• 2012 VW Golf
• 2012 VW GTI
• 2012 VW Jetta
• 2012 VW Passat
• 2012 VW Routan
• 2012 VW Tiguan
• 2012 VW Touareg

*Please note: A similar setup process may apply to other Volkswagen models.

Chris Ng is our Master VW Sales Consultant at Douglas Volkswagen NJ Dealership.

Oprah Gift Rolls Off Summit Car Lot
By Camilo H. Smith
October 13, 2011

Outside, as the cloudy sky let down small drizzles of rain on the parking lot, inside the Douglas Volkswagen showroom salesman Chris Ng kept a sunny smile as he explained the features of the new Volkswagen Beetle to Toi Jackson and her husband. A yellow sticker sat under the windshield, it read: Sold. *Oprah* Do Not Touch.

This wasn’t your everyday new vehicle delivery. The 2012 Beetle, only the second to drive off the lot, was among the final prizes given away by Oprah Winfrey during the last season of her namesake television show. Jackson, a Maplewood teacher and South Orange resident, chose Summit to claim her prize on the advice of her husband Isaiah, a retired police officer.

“Toi and I, we’ve been talking for a week or two,” said Ng about preparations for the pick up, which Volkswagen’s corporate honchos planned for today. Ng got the news he would be handing off an Oprah prize earlier this month after a call from Volkswagen headquarters in Virginia to Douglass’ managers.

“I was very excited,” said Ng about hearing the news. “It’s not every day that you get to do something as nice as this,” he said with a grin. Ng has worked at the Summit dealership for 5 years and has never given away a car.

Isaiah Jackson said his family chose the Summit dealer because of its reputation as a “reliable place” with customers. “I did some research,” he said. Although he and his wife live closer to a dealer on Route 22, they wanted to do business in Summit because of what co-workers and friends recommended.

A friend of Isaiah, a former co-worker who happened to be in the dealership on other business congratulated the couple. “It’s a blessing to get a gift like that,” said Sharice Wilson.

But the journey to the silver Beetle started when Toi Jackson and her close friend Karla Ridley of Cranford got the invite from Oprah’s producers to come to Chicago for a Nov. 16 show taping. Jackson and Ridley were selected after Jackson wrote a letter to Oprah about a foundation she created for domestic violence called “Just Breath.” Ridley was her inspiration, she said. They appeared on the show for an episode about personal heroes. All the guests on Oprah’s show received earrings, cookware and iPads, in addition to the car. Ridley decided to pick her car up in Linden later in the afternoon.

Although the car was a gift for Toi Jackson, it was clear her husband was going to take it for a spin every now and then. “This is a bad car, man. I like this,” he chuckled just before his wife took the wheel to roll out of the dealership. To mark the special occasion Toi had the priveledge of driving the car out of the showroom doors.

“That’s the first time we ever let a customer drive off our showroom floor,” said Kurt Steger, the sales manager at Douglas Auto Group. The new Beetles went on sale earlier this month. Steger said the “Oprah” Beetle, which has no special markings and looks like a regular 2012 model, was stored away from the other cars. “We protected this one a lot more,” he said. The only other Beetle sold this month was a red colored model that was bought by a Summit resident.

After slowly rolling off the showroom, and sitting in the lot, Toi Jackson had the smile of someone who, well — just got a free car. She was congratulated and drove off back to South Orange.

Ng stood in the drizzle a while longer to answer a reporter’s questions. He wouldn’t be earning his regular commission on this sale, but that didn’t bother him. This was something they call a “courtesy delivery” in the car business. Even though some patrons and employees were excited by the star power attached to the transaction, for Ng it was just about doing his job. “This isn’t anything different from how we treat other customers,” he said.

Jim Halligan, Master Technician, provides some great tips on how to get your VW ready for the winter.

Douglas VW Service, best in NJ!