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 ...

The 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine was one of many things dragging the whole Volkswagen model range down in the past few years. That all changed in 2014, when the company's US division decided to ...

Volkswagen's New Beetle wasn't a terrible car, but it also wasn't exactly built with enthusiasts in mind. VW basically drew up a retro-inspired design and then told its engineers to figure out how to ...

The upcoming 2012 Volkswagen Beetle is being billed as a substantial departure from the cutesy car it replaces. And if you’ve been waiting for your chance to put your name down for one of the first ...

The VW Andretti Rallycross team has unveiled two revised Beetle GRC cars which will compete in the 2015 Global Rallycross Championship. Based on the vehicle introduced last year, the updated VW Beetle ...

With its unveiling of the 2002 New Beetle Turbo S, Volkswagen is delivering the most powerful and sports equipped New Beetle ever available for the U.S. market. Available in January at ...

Thanks to years of tinkering, people have figured out a number of ways to make a faster Volkswagen Beetle. You can do anything from converting its stock flat-four to run on Weber carbs, to swapping in ...

Mazda has famously been one of the few manufacturers to laugh in the face of turbochargers back when everyone thought they were the only way to get satisfactory amounts of power out of the downsized ...