The 1953 Volkswagen Beetle did not simply roll into showrooms as another imported oddity. It arrived at the precise moment when car culture, highway building, and postwar tastes were shifting, and it ...
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 ...
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 Volkswagen, or "People's Car", first rolled off German assembly lines in 1938... and after some rather regrettable ...