The New Beetle RSi is a rare modern classic that foreshadowed Volkswagen's R-badged performance cars ...

View post: Someone Is Cramming a 700-HP Inline-Six In a BMW i8 UPDATE: Smyth Performance has finished its first conversion to show what the final New Beetle truck conversion looks like. A few extra ...

The classic VW Beetle 1300 faces a bigger challenge against the more powerful Beetle 1600 in a straight-line drag race. Can the lighter 1300 keep up, or will the stronger engine of the 1600 take an ...

The original Volkswagen Beetle is a masterpiece of engineering, but there’s one attribute that it sorely lacks: speed. Installing a Porsche engine no longer makes financial sense because the parts ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is an economy car no more. German outfit Milivié Design is offering restored and modernized versions of the original VW Bug for $600,000, but there's a reason for the hefty price ...

The Volkswagen New Beetle launched with incredible fanfare in 1998, and now it's run its course. However, one company is recapturing some of the excitement a pickup truck conversion. Smyth Performance ...

A company out of the United States called Smyth Performance is working on a pickup truck conversion for the first-generation New Beetle. Only a single image of the ongoing project has been published ...

Forge Motorsport’s Hosetechnik division has released a range of ultra-high performance brake hoses for the ‘sporting’ version of the air-cooled VW Beetle; the 1303S. This latest release forms part of ...

Want proof that diesel is finally taking hold in North America? Look no further than this 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible. For a while now, it’s become easier to understand why more automakers are ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

To the chagrin of a lot of small-car lovers out there, Volkswagen has decided to kill off the Beetle. It’s a sad decision, as the nameplate is one of the oldest in the automotive industry and the car ...