When a business stays alive for 100 years, it’s guaranteed to have gone through some hardships. The Great Depression, financial crises, new laws, changing tastes, evolving technologies, and a ...

The car in question is known as Project 1021, and is one of a handful of prototypes that were built by VW South Africa in the late 1970s. I've covered the history of this project before, which was ...

The Karmann-Ghia TC isn't one of those cars that haunts my brain every moment, but every time I see one I think to myself that if, somehow, a magic horse were to appear and offer me a mint-condition ...

SAO PAULO Brazil -- With their unique air-cooled engines sputtering to life brand-new classic Volkswagen minivans chug off the assembly line after a manufacturing ritual barely changed since hippies ...

LOS ANGELES—The first air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle was imported into the U.S. in 1949 and the last in 1979. Park a '49 Type One VW Beetle next to a '79 Super Beetle and they look pretty darn similar, ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

One thing you find out fast while driving a vintage Volkswagen Beetle is that everyone over a certain age has a Volkswagen Beetle story. I had the nicely restored 1964 Beetle you see here—property of ...

On Saturday, you might catch a glimpse of Chris Vallone driving his “pride and joy,” a 1970 VW Beetle convertible that the Congers enthusiast fully restored in 2018 after it had been found rusting ...

This 1972 VW Bug is a mostly stock example with just a few practical upgrades. It’s finished in white over a gray interior ...

Volkswagen’s boxy, air-cooled rear-engine Combi van is finally to go out of production in Mexico, Associated Press (AP) reported, adding that production in Brazil is also likely to end soon. The van ...