On this weeks Rides with Jay Thomas, we follow a custom truck build from start to finish with our friends from the Hot Rod Shop of Fargo. We'll look at Jayson Ackerson's 1970 Volkswagen, he's had it ...

While other automakers ponder a retro revival project or niche car once in a while, Volkswagen went ahead and did it... over and over. Cars like the Beetle, Scirocco or Eos may not be the best in the ...

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 ...

It's not every day a Volkswagen Beetle goes flying through the air. However, during one September weekend in Southern California, rallycross fans were treated to just such a sight. It was the seventh ...

UPDATE: Smyth Performance has finished its first conversion to show what the final New Beetle truck conversion looks like. A few extra details about the product have been added to the text below, ...

We dropped a V8 engine into a beaten-up Volkswagen Beetle—and now it’s time to hit the drag strip. Will this wild build surprise everyone or fall apart at the line? This is the ultimate underdog race ...

Herbie the VW Beetle vanquished Ferraris and Corvettes he raced in the 1968 film “The Love Bug.” So it’s Gabriel Nathan’s lot in life to face drag-racing challenges from the likes of the Mercedes AMG ...

Back in the 1960s, The Love Bug kicked off a film franchise featuring Herbie the VW Beetle, a “Volksie” with a mind of its own that becomes an unlikely racing champion. On Saturday, more than 50 ...