I’ve always said that what Australia was to marsupials, Brazil was to air-cooled Volkswagens. Usually when I say this I’m ...

That dipshit has it coming. Here's how to get him: ask what the first FWD air-cooled VW was. If he answers at all, it'll probably be "VW Gol." Then laugh at his sorry ass. The real answer is the ...

In its mid-1960s configuration, the air-cooled VW engine was a 1.2-liter boxer four cylinder that put out around 40 horsepower, according to Autoweek. But it was made in a few other displacements ...

Air-cooling was a hallmark of Volkswagen since it began in the late 1930s. Throughout most of the 20th century, VW was motoring free from the cruel, wet tyranny of water—heavy, leaky radiators ...

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 ...

There are historical ties to some notable personnel in the air-cooled VW's history, for better or worse. One was Ferdinand Porsche and the other was Adolf Hitler. Ferdinand Porsche wanted to ...

“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 ...

there’s a solid base of people who like to install superchargers on the Beetle’s air-cooled engines. There’s even a dedicated YouTube channel – Kompressor Haus / VW Aircooled Superchargers ...