Some of VWs own cars made it through to Brazil in their original form, such as the Beetle (which gained the translated name of Fusca, or beetle in Portuguese). The Puma GT is one of the most well ...

Whether it's called the Beetle, the Bug, Käfer, Kever or Косτенурка, the Volkswagen Type 1 is one of the most recognizable cars ever to roll off the assembly line – and a lot of them did.

The formula sounds fairly simple: Take a 1959 Volkswagen Beetle and find a way to make it ... "In hindsight," he told us at a car show here recently, "it wasn't that hard." Yet he adds, "I had ...

This classic German economy car nearly hit six figures after a flurry of bidding came during the final day of the auction, ...

Volkswagen's plant in Mexico -- the only one in the world that still makes the old-style Beetle -- finishes one last gussied-up retro edition of the plucky, curvacious little car, ending the model ...

car in history: the Volkswagen Type 1, more commonly known as the Beetle. The ways in which this car was modified to suit the needs of a wide range of people over its 65-year-long production run ...

The story of the Beetle began in 1934 when Adolf Hitler commissioned the design of an affordable yet practical car for the German people. The task was assigned to automotive engineer Ferdinand ...

Early sales of the Volkswagen Bug (sometimes called the Beetle) were slower in America ... By the 1960s, though, people had accepted the car, and it became this country’s best-selling imported ...

The Bug has been squashed. Volkswagen confirmed Thursday that it will end production of the Beetle in 2019, though it hinted the car could one day be revived. The future of the iconic Beetle had ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is one of the most iconic vehicles in history. From its massive global sales figures to its 57-year production run, it truly realized Volkswagen's original mission (and the ...

Tyler Duffy Modern cars are also enormous compared to the old VWs. The IIHS knocks modern cars for safety if they are under 2,750 lbs; the Beetle checks in at about 1,500, about half the weight of the ...