You'll notice that in the Tucker Sno-Cat, the engine is upfront, which, sure, is unusual for an air-cooled VW motor, but by no means unheard of. Volkswagen themselves built and sold two cars that ...

The spark plugs fire together on every power and exhaust stroke, eliminating the need for a distributor ... handful of other early VW autos was an equally iconic air-cooled horizontally-opposed ...

When air-cooled engines are mentioned, we tend to think of the VW Beetle or Porsche 911, but plenty of other cars featured ...

“The VW air-cooled engine has been perhaps the greatest produced engine in numbers the world has seen.” The move comes three years after Volkswagen’s Mexican division stopped production of ...

While the example I owned was well-used before I acquired it, it retained all of that great VW air-cooled reliability, along ...

LOS ANGELES—The first air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle was imported into the U.S. in 1949 and the last in 1979. Park a '49 Type One VW Beetle next to a '79 Super Beetle and they look pretty darn ...

The last 911 powered this way vanished after the 1998 model year, while the air-cooled Beetle soldiered on until 2003. Between them are, arguably, the most iconic car and the most popular car ...

São Paulo, Brazil – A long chapter in the history of Volks wagen AG ends Friday when the last air-cooled motor will be hoisted into a vehicle seen as a museum piece almost everywhere else ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to Harley ...

With 530PS (523hp) and 757Nm (558lb-ft) of peak torque, the VW T1 Race Taxi is not a vehicle to mess with. It’s powered by an air-cooled light alloy six-cylinder sourced from Porsche 993 fitted ...