If you were a young person in the 1960s, you almost certainly rode in a Volkswagen Beetle. If you were lucky, you owned one. And it was bitchin’. If you lived in Southern California, you might have ...

When a car model is between generations, there’s nothing quite like a special edition to perk up interest and—if everything goes right—sales. For example, Ford’s King Ranch Edition of its popular ...

There was no Volkswagen company or manufacturing plant when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. In 1937 Hitler formed a new government-owned automobile company to be managed by a Nazi organization ...

I have owned just one car in my life, and three decades later, I still drive her. "Rousseau" is a 1971 yellow convertible Volkswagen Bug. When I was very young, it was the only car I ever wanted, so I ...

VW is ending the long run of the Beetle. The car was in production, in various forms, for 80 years. A few years back, I tested an offbeat trim level — the Dune Beetle — and I was impressed. You have ...

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 up ...