SAO PAULO, Brazil – With their unique air-cooled engines sputtering to life, brand-new classic Volkswagen minivans chug off the assembly line after a manufacturing ritual barely changed since hippies ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- With their air-cooled engines sputtering to life, brand-new classic Volkswagen minivans chug off the assembly line after a manufacturing ritual barely changed since hippies turned ...

The car in question is known as Project 1021, and is one of a handful of prototypes that were built by VW South Africa in the late 1970s. I've covered the history of this project before, which was ...

Air-cooling was a hallmark of Volkswagen since it began in the late 1930s. Throughout most of the 20th century, VW was motoring free from the cruel, wet tyranny of water—heavy, leaky radiators, and ...

The Volkswagen Beetle (also called the VW Type-1) is one of the most recognizable vehicles of all time. In the United States, it was the de-facto symbol of counterculture hippies of the 1960s and ...

In the classic air-cooled VW boxer engines—and even current motorcycle, ATV, and aircraft configurations—engine cooling is achieved through airflow alone. Cast cooling fins, surrounding cylinder ...

On Saturday, you might catch a glimpse of Chris Vallone driving his “pride and joy,” a 1970 VW Beetle convertible that the Congers enthusiast fully restored in 2018 after it had been found rusting ...

If you are not at least moderately informed about how engines work, you may still be aware that they all require water, or antifreeze, in order to function. It is true that some form of coolant is ...