Building a 400HP New Beetle doesn't happen by accident, instead it takes the right parts and serious know-how. When Volkswagen of America selected us to build a Beetle for the 2012 SEMA Show we had no ...

To mark the launch of the new 2012 Beetle, Volkswagen chose to work with a few companies to build several cars for the SEMA show. You can see some of the examples in our full SEMA report elsewhere in ...

The Volkswagen New Beetle Turbo S is a terrible car for hauling sheets of plywood back from Home Depot or taking a family of five and their gear on a cross-country camping trip. Of course the same ...

View post: RECALL: The Wheels on Your Brand-New Volkswagen SUV Could Literally Fall Off The upcoming 2012 Volkswagen Beetle is being billed as a substantial departure from the cutesy car it replaces.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover luxury automotive, motorcycles and related topics. Mar 29, 2013, 03:31pm EDT This article is more than 10 years old. I ...

Volkswagen's New Beetle wasn't a terrible car, but it also wasn't exactly built with enthusiasts in mind. VW basically drew up a retro-inspired design and then told its engineers to figure out how to ...

Volkswagen has been thinking about bringing a compact pickup truck to the U.S., and it might want to hurry up. Custom car body outfit Smyth Performance has unveiled a conversion kit to turn a VW New ...

Replacing the previous Volkswagen Beetle with its cute and bubbly shape, the new model introduced in 2012 is considerably more gender-neutral. Though getting over the car’s modern era stereotype will ...

When it comes to cool, iconic compacts that have maintained a good level of heritage in the modern shapes of their stamped-steel bodies, none pull it off quite as well as the Mini Cooper and the ...

When one thinks about the original VW Beetle Cabriolet, the drag strip isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Nevertheless, we are here to discuss one retro Beetle that can easily smoke ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...