I return to you people from air-cooled Volkswagen Project Car Hell, only to find Hagerty's video of a Beetle engine getting re-built. It looks so simple! It's such a tiny engine! Everything fits ...

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 ...

Even though we're primarily a truck magazine, each of us has come to respect and admire the off-road prowess of VW Bugs and their tube-chassis offspring. Compact dimensions make for a nimble vehicle, ...

The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure ...

I've been getting lots of questions about the state of my Beetle since its recovery, and I'm finally happy to say insurance companies have been dealt with, checks have been cut, and work is about to ...

If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a car mechanic, you may be enthusiastic enough, but don’t know where to start. After all, many modern-day engines are extremely complex and may not be as forgiving ...

This weekend's Pod Rods has some wild news about a retro-Beetle with some serious mid-engine attitude; some new GM and BMW action; the offer to see a real movie star car up close; and the usual round ...

The folks at Hagerty sure do love their timelapses, and their latest one might be the coolest yet. It's a six-minute clip of a Volkswagen Beetle engine being completely torn down and rebuilt, start to ...

Volkswagen of America confirmed last evening via email the alteration of the Passat and Beetle engine lineups for the 2018 model year. In examining updated EPA mpg figures for the 2018 model year — as ...

When Bruce Meyers shortened a Volkswagen Beetle chassis and threw a fiberglass shell on it, he started the dune buggy craze of the mid-1960s with his Meyers Manx off-road race car. Now here at the ...

Both will give you good fuel savings in the sort of driving you're doing. The hybrid would likely be better in stop-start driving, the diesel better for open-road motoring. The diesel would be cheaper ...