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Volkswagen is introducing a Throwback Thursday series to either keep us entertained and thinking about the brand or simply to remind us what day it is and give time meaning. The series’ first week is being run in conjunction with the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles to bring us the...

Autocar recently ran a headline claiming that the “Volkswagen Beetle [is] set to go electric and rear-wheel drive” and, naturally, I was pretty excited when we read that. A rear-engine Beetle is always exciting, but reading on a bit I was disappointed by what I found. Look, before we launch...

With the electric MEB platform essentially being a skateboard onto which Volkswagen can lay any body, designers in Wolfsburg are looking back through the ages for inspiration for the next EV concept. The latest contenders? The Thing and the dune buggy. “We have so many emotional concepts,”...

Earlier this week Jay Leno’s Garage featured a rotary powered Beetle that fascinated and repulsed in equal measures. For those who were fascinated: Good news! For those who weren’t: bad news: There’s a turbocharged rotary powered Thing available for sale on eBay right now . Basically no...

Today is our last day of Wörthersee 2016 coverage and we’re featuring the stuff that just didn’t fit into another gallery. There’s a lot of air cooled stuff, some Audis, a new Beetle, some vans, and a whole lot more. The nice thing about this gallery is that it’s kind of Volkswagen at its most...

And so it's time to say so long and farewell to the happiest lake on earth. It's our intrepid photographer Si Gray's last day at Wörthersee. Soon he'll be on a 12 hour road trip to Paris with friend-of-the-site Jamie Orr. For now, though, he's sent us his last gallery of 130 shots from Austria...

Despite only being sold in the United States for a two years, the Volkswagen Thing made quite a splash within the enthusiast community, and continues to be a sought-after model.  We've seen our fare share over the years, but a cleanly built example is still guaranteed to turn our heads.  Case in...

Built by Tatum Motor Sports in Peoria, Arizona, this Thing is probably unlike any other you have ever seen.  Originally featured in 4x4 and Off Road Magazine back in 2006, it has been completely transformed from a stock 1974 model into a full blown dune buggy at the request (and checkbook) of...