If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a car mechanic, you may be enthusiastic enough, but don’t know where to start. After all, many modern-day engines are extremely complex and may not be as forgiving ...

How many Volkswagen Types can you name? The easy one is probably the Type 2 (Transporter), which is 75 this year, although it’s amazing how many car nuts don’t know that the original air-cooled Beetle ...

Most enthusiast discussions about engines sometimes tend to boil down to V6 and V8 engines. They are the engines often associated with power and the flashier automobiles made throughout history.

The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure ...

There is nothing cooler than building your own car, even if the result will likely be less than perfect, to put it mildly. Still, the satisfaction of knowing every inch of the vehicle's body, every ...

The engine, meanwhile, is the most powerful ever fitted to a Beetle in Germany, mustering up a spicy 60bhp (when new) to give ...

Arriving at our shores in 1949, the Volkswagen Beetle swept America during the Summer of Love and became a symbol of the counterculture movement in the 1960s. Commissioned by Adolf Hitler and designed ...

I had a taste of what it was like on the drive up to the Streets of Willow circuit that morning. Finding gaps left by sleepy commuters, I dipped into the Super Beetle's throttle for bursts of speed, ...