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517 HP Subaru-Powered 1973 VW Super Beetle
Southern California Would you ever guess this cute little VW bug produces 517 horsepower at the wheels and screams like a ...
Nicole Johnson's Detour on MSN13h
1220 HP Blown Nitrous 1965 VW Rat Beetle Dragster
When a guy with a demented mind gets ahold of tools and a 1965 Volkswagen Beetle, the result can only be the Frankenbug: a rusty, scarred, Frankenstein rat rod dragster with a massive 504 cubic-inch ...
In becoming a celebrity in itself, the Bug then took the spot as the cover car for the September 1971 issue of Dune Buggies ...
Coming up with five alternatives to the Volkswagen Beetle requires a thorough consideration of what the original VW Beetle actually was back in the day. No, we will not be including the retro ...
Back in the 1970s, the idea that Volkswagen might stop making the Beetle was unthinkable. The car and the brand that built it had become synonymous, and no one could imagine that VW would give it ...
The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...
Both the VW Bus and Beetle still turn heads when they cruise down the freeway, decades after initial production. Which model is the more iconic Volkswagen?
Volkswagen built the original Type 1 Beetle in essentially the same form from 1938 all the way through 2003, a production record approached only by that of the ...
Should VW bring the Beetle back as an EV, after the ID. Buzz? A recent concept made for an animated film teases a comeback.
The classic Volkswagen Beetle from the 1960s and 1970s was powered by an air-cooled four-cylinder engine that made roughly 40 horsepower when new.
A mere few weeks after a digital animation of an electric Volkswagen Beetle stirred the rumor mill about a real-life version, the CEO of the passenger cars business has said otherwise. Although ...
With the all-electric ID. Buzz van now on sale, we assumed Volkswagen would lean further into its heritage by resurrecting the Beetle as an EV as well. Rumors from as far back as 2018 suggested ...