The modern iterations of the Beetle were never a success for Volkswagen, no matter how hard the German manufacturer tried to promote them. They would have been relegated to the back pages of ...

The world's fastest Volkswagen Beetle set a new land speed record at the World of Speed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, America, last week. During the record attempt on 12 September the Beetle ...

The 1953 Volkswagen Beetle did not simply roll into showrooms as another imported oddity. It arrived at the precise moment when car culture, highway building, and postwar tastes were shifting, and it ...

Few cars on the road in the post-war period display the kind of recognizable charm and enduring connection to pop culture as the Volkswagen Type 1, commonly referred to as the Volkswagen Beetle. Just ...