Produced for over six decades in over 20 million examples, the iconic Volkswagen Beetle is quite common by overall production numbers. However, some of the early iterations are quite rare. This 1950 ...

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75 years ago this month the VW bus began production. On March 8, 1950, Volkswagen, maker of the Beetle automobile, began producing its second vehicle, the microbus, known officially as the Volkswagen ...

Although the existence of the Volkswagen Beetle dates back to the early 1930s, it wasn’t until 1949 that the first of what would turn out to be millions would find its way to the US. Sixty-five years ...

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 ...

Volkswagen has introduced three special edition Beetle Convertible models to celebrate the droptop’s launch. The vehicles are designed to evoke three distinct decades in American cultural history: the ...

There have been hundreds of beautifully designed automobiles where master vehicle stylists and engineers create shapes and lines that have endured in the public consciousness. We all have an idea of ...

This approach is referred to as “completely knocked down” (CKD). Initially, the approach was to open up new markets; nowadays, CKD also ensures supplies to Volkswagen’s global production network – and ...

When Adolph Hitler first tapped Ferdinand Porsche in the 1930s to build the Kraft durch Freude (KdF) Wagen, or the Strength through Joy Car (aka the Beetle), there was no way of knowing that something ...

Introduced in 1938 as an affordable "people's car," the original Volkswagen Beetle soldiered on until 2003. Sold for a whopping 65 years, it was built in no fewer than 21 factories spread across 17 ...