The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colorful history, with principal characters that include the Nazi dictator who personified evil, the legendary designer of Germany’s most celebrated race cars ...

“Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle” (Ballantine Books), by Andrea Hiott: The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colorful history, with principal characters that include ...

The world’s oldest surviving VW Beetle, a fragile prototype that predates the production line legend, has been painstakingly ...

WEBVTT 4 TIMELINE...ON THIS JULY 21ST. ON THIS DATE IN 2003... IT WAS THE END OF AN ERA FOR A POPULAR CAR. THE WORLD'S LAST NEW VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE ROLLED OFF AN ASSEMBLY LINE AT A PLANT IN MEXICO.

A child poses next to a car at a vintage Volkswagen Beetle fans meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on May 11. (Vadim Ghirda/The Associated Press) By Bernhard Rieger "Owning a VW is Like Being in Love," ...

Volkswagen will stop making its iconic Beetle after nearly seven decades on the market, the German automaker announced Thursday. The first Beetles rolled off production lines in 1938. Their increasing ...

A new book, “The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle,” tells the story of the car and the advertising that made it an icon. It’s hard to think of any small car–or, indeed, any ...

This week, the last VW Beetle will roll off the production line at the Volkswagen plant in Puebla, Mexico. Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its iconic Beetle model, marking the ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is one of the enduring and iconic products of the past century, but it has meant different things to different people in different places and times. In telling its story, Rieger ...

“Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle” (Ballantine Books), by Andrea Hiott: The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colorful history, with principal characters that include ...