As a child of the late ’90s, I associate the VW Bus with the first Cars movie. Specifically, with Fillmore, the pastel green VW Bus who champions “organic fuel” and is voiced by George Carlin. My ...

75 years ago this month the VW bus began production. On March 8, 1950, Volkswagen, maker of the Beetle automobile, began producing its second vehicle, the microbus, known officially as the Volkswagen ...

When the VW Bus (the T1 model) went into production in 1950 at a Volkswagen plant in West Germany, it completely changed the way people looked at cars. Promoted as a multi-use machine with a simple ...

During the T1 era, VW made everything from fire-brigade pickup trucks to the most collectible of them all, the Deluxe Samba. Throughout the 1950s, Volkswagen’s Type 2 microbus was hardly a collectible ...