In the wonderful, quirky world of the Volkswagen Beetle, even the heater has a story to tell. Without a liquid-cooled engine to provide heat, the VW Beetle engineers had to get creative. The result ...

We're going to avoid the low-hanging fruit here and just say up front that no, old Beetles did not pipe hot exhaust gas straight into their cabins. They relied on exhaust gases to heat up (relatively) ...

Several aftermarket companies specialize in making tracks for late-model trucks and SUVs, but as far as we know there’s no off-the-shelf kit that fits an air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle. That doesn’t ...

Henry Menager likes his classic cars fast, bright and bug-shaped. Aside from his own prized 1967 Camaro, the owner of the Pasadena repair shop Bugoholics has a particular fondness for the sturdy and ...

Volkswagen’s classic air-cooled, rear engine Beetle is finally to get the chop after Volkswagen on Friday said it would stop making the nearly 70-year old classic “bug” in Mexico this summer.

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...