A specially tuned Volkswagen Beetle hit 205.122 mph in the flying mile at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, setting a record for the nameplate. A few years back, we set the hybrid land ...

To the outsider, land-speed racing at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats looks like much ado about nothing; just mat the throttle and steer straight down the middle of a 120-foot-wide, 6-mile-long track ...

Your average VW Beetle is not going to come anywhere close to 200 miles (320km/h) per hour. Porsche 911 Turbo, sure, but not a Beetle. Yet that’s precisely what this one did. Specially modified for ...

Their nickname stemmed from the unhealthy way some owners maintained them, but the "swamp coolers" Volkswagen owners used did the job in summer.

Top speed is the new quarter-mile e.t.—at least for some. With today's myriad opportunities to race at standing-mile events, performance ideals have back to the roots of hot rodding when top speed was ...