They've been classics for decades now, but people are still just as interested in Volkswagen Beetles as they were when the car first came out in 1938. While we don't call them Type 1s today — the ...
Not many cars can lay the same claim to fame as the Volkswagen Type 1, more affectionately referred to as a "Bug." Technically, the Type 1 didn't officially become the Beetle until 1968. If your ...
[This story originally appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of MotorTrend Classic.] Twenty-one million, five hundred twenty-nine thousand, four hundred and sixty-four. That’s the total number of ...
Prologue: some shapes are hard to improve on -- Before the "people's car" -- A symbol of the national socialist people's community? -- "We should make no demands" -- Icon of the early federal republic ...
75 years ago this month the VW bus began production. On March 8, 1950, Volkswagen, maker of the Beetle automobile, began producing its second vehicle, the microbus, known officially as the Volkswagen ...