In 1965, my sister and I pleaded with our mother to buy us a new Volkswagen Beetle. We'd share the car, we said. We wouldn't have to squabble over her '63 Impala. We'd work out a schedule -- a weekend ...

I just saw a remarkable bit of Volkswagen Beetle history happen tonight: a Beetle sold for the highest price ever recorded, an absolutely staggering $300,000. This beats the previous record of ...

The last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the line in 2003 after more than six decades in production. One of the great game-changing automobiles, the quirky little sedan emerged from a dramatic birth to ...

On May 28, 1937, the German Labour Front officially founded Volkswagen. This company was created under Nazi rule at the ...

Today, people passionate about the vehicle’s bug-like design and automotive history celebrate the 1966 Beetle as one of the ...

The original VW Beetle holds a place in automotive history that’s hard to top, with over 21.5 million units rolling off production lines between 1938 and 2003. That staggering figure means there’s no ...

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 ...

Prologue: some shapes are hard to improve on -- Before the "people's car" -- A symbol of the national socialist people's community? -- "We should make no demands" -- Icon of the early federal republic ...

Some stolen cars are expensive. Some are rare. And then there are the cars that feel almost impossible to replace because they carry years of history, restoration work, and emotional investment tied ...