Shortly after Christmas 1945, an icon was born. World War II had at last come to an end, and out of its destructive wake rolled a round, cartoonish-looking compact known as the Volkswagen Beetle. Also ...

The more things change, the more frequently Volkswagen launches a new Beetle. The original Type 1 stayed in production for 65 years. The New Beetle, introduced in 1998, soldiered on for 11 years. Now, ...

There are few people on this earth who, gearhead or not, are unaware of the Volkswagen Beetle. Whether one's exposure comes from seeing Herbie on television, Vocho cabs in Mexico, or yards of the ...

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 ...

Old enough to remember that AMC, not Subaru, built the "world's first Sport Utility Wagon" and young enough to prefer fuel injection to carburetion, Christopher "Emmy" Jackson entered the auto ...

When El Rey-- the final Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle to ever be made -- rolled off the Mexican production line on July 30, 2003, many Volkswagen fans around the world mourned the end of a 60-year ...