The Volkswagen Beetle (also called the VW Type-1) is one of the most recognizable vehicles of all time. In the United States, it was the de-facto symbol of counterculture hippies of the 1960s and ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Most enthusiast discussions about engines sometimes tend to boil down to V6 and V8 engines. They are the engines often associated with power and the flashier automobiles made throughout history.

One of my favorite things about the noisy old air-cooled boxer four-banger that powered millions and millions of Volkswagen Beetles, Buses, Ghias, Things, Type IIIs and more is just how incredibly ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

I know there are lots of car engines that got stuffed into pretty much everything: the Iron Duke was shoved into everything from Camaros to mail trucks, and the original Volkswagen air-cooled ...

LOS ANGELES—The first air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle was imported into the U.S. in 1949 and the last in 1979. Park a '49 Type One VW Beetle next to a '79 Super Beetle and they look pretty darn similar, ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...

In the wonderful, quirky world of the Volkswagen Beetle, even the heater has a story to tell. Without a liquid-cooled engine to provide heat, the VW Beetle engineers had to get creative. The result ...

Volkswagen’s boxy, air-cooled rear-engine Combi van is finally to go out of production in Mexico, Associated Press (AP) reported, adding that production in Brazil is also likely to end soon. The van ...