The 2012 Volkswagen Beetle is fresh off its global unveiling earlier today, and the good-looking hatch appears to be dead serious about appealing to the masses. Volkswagen will offer the Beetle with ...

The VW Beetle was not built for thrills, but with basically the same powertrain as a Scirocco or Golf, it's not a slouch in the straight line either in it's top spec 2.0 TSI "Turbo" form. If the 211 ...

Although offered with an optional turbocharged engine and even the ultra-rare VR6-powered RS model, the previous-generation Volkswagen New Beetle could never quite totally shake its "chick car" image.

The aptly named Boxer engine became more refined as Volkswagen turned out later Beetle generations. It grew to 1.6 liters although, even then, it could only generate about 50 hp. The engine proved to ...

Few cars match the original Volkswagen Beetle's cultural reach. It started as an affordable transportation, but fate dictated its evolution into a global icon. Its distinctive shape, simple mechanics, ...

The original Volkswagen Beetle is a masterpiece of engineering, but there’s one attribute that it sorely lacks: speed. Installing a Porsche engine no longer makes financial sense because the parts ...

A company out of the United States called Smyth Performance is working on a pickup truck conversion for the first-generation New Beetle. Only a single image of the ongoing project has been published ...

The Volkswagen New Beetle is perhaps the least manly car ever put into production. Proof positive: All the girls in my fifth-grade class just loved it and thought it was "sooo cute." For fifth-grade ...

Forge Motorsport’s Hosetechnik division has released a range of ultra-high performance brake hoses for the ‘sporting’ version of the air-cooled VW Beetle; the 1303S. This latest release forms part of ...

Performance filtration specialist Pipercross has provided the perfect breathing solution for owners of the ‘classic’ air-cooled VW Beetle fitted with either the 1200, 1300 or 1600 engines and running ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is an economy car no more. German outfit Milivié Design is offering restored and modernized versions of the original VW Bug for $600,000, but there's a reason for the hefty price ...