My old Beetle's sure been through a lot this year, but this past weekend, for the first time since it was recovered, I drove it again. And while it still looks a bit battered, it's going to be better ...

Squeezing. It’s the easiest way to pump power out of any engine. Squeezing. It’s slang for using nitrous oxide to enhance the performance of an engine. Squeezing. We’d all love to be able to do it but ...

I return to you people from air-cooled Volkswagen Project Car Hell, only to find Hagerty's video of a Beetle engine getting re-built. It looks so simple! It's such a tiny engine! Everything fits ...

Hemant Bheda turns the ignition of his 1972 Volkswagen Beetle, but nothing seems to happen. There’s no revving of the engine and no rattling from a car that’s almost four decades old. This isn’t ...

Newman was self-admittedly addicted to sleeper cars. He had been upgrading his humble VWs with Porsche engines and brakes ...

The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure ...

Replacing an entire engine in a car is a big job. The daunting task involves multiple steps, each requiring intimate knowledge of a car’s mechanical and electrical components along with the skill to ...

Volkswagen spent many years and a vast quantity of Deutschmarks trying to replace the Beetle. We travel the rocky road that ...