Volkswagen Beetle News

ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAKE LINGEMAN: The Beetle is one of those cars that I would never buy, but I'm glad Volkswagen is making it.

There's always a bit of a numbers game at Automobile when you're handed the keys to a convertible in the throes of winter.

The 1960's were a tumultuous time in American history. It was a decade filled with uncertainty, rapid change, flower power, hippies and Woodstock.

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Forty years after the original Beetle GSR went on sale, Volkswagen has launched the 2014 Beetle GSR the modern equivalent to the old Bug.

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The fact that the Volkswagen Beetle was the idea of Adolf Hitler and designed by the same guy who came up with a bunch of Nazi tanks didn't make the car too popular in post-war Britain.

A shiny new 2013 Volkswagen Beetle convertible is sitting in my driveway. My objective: To fully appreciate the Beetle's potential with the top down.

So what happens when you take away the Golf's hatchback body and plaid seats, and add a fabric top, and a retro exterior? We have one year to find out with this, the 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible Turbo.

Anybody looking for a "car of the people" from across the Atlantic will certainly have choices.

His first encounter with the Lancia Ardea pictured above was in 1955, when he studied in Italy during college; he drove Italy's finest roads in a Volkswagen Beetle that he'd shipped from Mexico.

Could you really stand the thought of a diesel Mazda Miata? Mazda engineers are apparently toying with the idea of the fourth-generation of the roadster, due in the next couple of years, being available with a super-efficient, yet totally uncharacteristic, engine.

Volkswagen says the 2013 Beetle Turbo, Beetle Turbo Convertible, and the Jetta GLI are getting more juice with the fitment of a new version of the award-winning EA888 2.0-liter turbocharged and direct-injected TSI engine according to a news release on May 3. The new Gen 3 EA888 2.0-liter TSI engine is one of a number of running changes to 2013 ... (more)

I lived the '70s decade in Vermont, back when you could count on a week or so of sub-zero temperatures 24 hours a day.

The last manual-transmission diesel convertible we drove was the Volkswagen Beetle .

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As if a Volkswagen Beetle wasn't already fun enough, along comes the sportier R-Line version.

Good news for shoppers planning on buying a 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo or Jetta GLI: the cars will now be a little more powerful thanks to the addition of a new engine, and they receive several visual tweaks.

Volkswagen has announced pricing for the new range-topping Beetle R-Line coupe .

For the past 50 years, a simple, little, open-wheel racing car, contrived from Volkswagen Beetle parts held together with a few lengths of welded pipe, has transported thousands of would-be-racers like Markham's Peter Viccary over the pit wall and on to the track.