Fueled by the massive success of the iconic Beetle, Volkswagen wanted a roomier car based on the same platform and they came up with the Type 4. Also known as the 411, it entered production in 1968 as ...

Most enthusiast discussions about engines sometimes tend to boil down to V6 and V8 engines. They are the engines often associated with power and the flashier automobiles made throughout history.

Volkswagen’s Thing may have looked off-road capable but looks can indeed be deceiving. This is the story of a quirky 1970s ...

Arriving at our shores in 1949, the Volkswagen Beetle swept America during the Summer of Love and became a symbol of the counterculture movement in the 1960s. Commissioned by Adolf Hitler and designed ...

Volkswagen spent many years and a vast quantity of Deutschmarks trying to replace the Beetle. We travel the rocky road that ...

Second acts are a bitch. American Graffiti? Great. More American Graffiti? Sucked. Volkswagen made its bones with the Beetle, but coming up with a sequel? Egad, that was wicked tough. It was the Type ...

Volkswagen AG was built on the (Type 1) Beetle. Then, in the mid 1990s, when the U.S. business was teetering on oblivion, a “New Beetle” was created as an auto-show exercise. Even the prospect of a ...

I think there's at least two things Soichiro Honda and I have in common: we both can really rock a good jumpsuit, and we both love air-cooling, perhaps irrationally. The car I want to talk to you ...