For decades, the VW Beetle ubiquitously roamed the interior of Baja California. The short-wheelbase “bug” with the air-cooled engine was the perfect vehicle for negotiating the dusty ...

and modifying the Bug's bodywork to accommodate those changes. With the Beetle, Volkswagen has long traded on nostalgia, and the Dune continues that tradition. It introduced a Baja Beetle concept ...

Other Volkswagen Beetle virtues are also in place, including attractive interior materials ... in the U.S. tumbling like an out-of-control Baja Bug (from 43,134 in 2013 to just 22,667 last ...

Next February, a new version called the Volkswagen Beetle Dune will go on sale as a sort of homage to the off-road oriented Baja Bug. Meanwhile, VW is considering producing a hybrid version of the ...

Embattled Volkswagen ... the new 2016 Beetle Dune. One glance at the Dune and anyone around long enough to remember the Bugs of yore will recognize the Dune as a throwback to the Baja Bugs that ...

Volkswagen says it harks back to the dune buggies of the 1960s and 1970s – best known as Baja Bugs, for their involvement in the famous Mexican off-road rally. The Beetle Dune sits 10mm higher ...

DETROIT, MI - When Ferdinand Porsche began mulling designs for the Volkswagen Beetle in the ... where any similarities between the Beetle Dune and Baja Bug seem to begin and end.

Normally, when you think about a VW Beetle turned into a Baja Bug two things can spring to mind - a fiberglass shelled beach vehicle or a battered Mad Max-like dune jumper. Still, this one we ...

VW envisions the Beetle Dune appealing to skiers in Aspen, Colo., or sandboarders in Florence, Ore. The company bills it as a 21st century of the Baja Bug, which is a modified Beetle that can ...

VW of America has announced that it will be sponsoring the ProjectBaja.com Class 11 VW Beetle in the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000 race ... protection and the interior accoutrements ...

Even without four-wheel drive, the rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive original Volkswagen Beetle made a credible off-roader—so much so that there was a whole class for modified Beetles in the Baja 1000.