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The German company’s hyped reboot of its iconic vintage van has been stunted by a luxury price tag, Trump’s trade war and an ...
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 ...
The bus was a favorite of the hippie counterculture in the 1960s and surfers still today. In the 1950s, the Volkswagen arrived in the U.S., and the initial reception was not very good but after a ...
We went to the original site of the Woodstock festival in VW’s new hippie bus. We learned a bit in the process.
Believe it or not, Rowan Atkinson, Mister Bean himself, is a die-hard gearhead, too, with rare Aston Martins and BMWs at his beck and call. But the award for coolest car collection most likely goes to ...
The Wolfsburg-built Mk1 Golf was the people’s car for the post-hippie era, with an angular shape and a steep hatchback that was a U-turn on the Beetle and which remains a highlight of genius designer ...
The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...