I return to you people from air-cooled Volkswagen Project Car Hell, only to find Hagerty's video of a Beetle engine getting re-built. It looks so simple! It's such a tiny engine! Everything fits ...

The Volkswagen Beetle showed the world that affordable and reliable transport was accessible. As cars have gotten more expensive, complicated, and larger, the simple Beetle shows that transport in any ...

The 1978 Volkswagen Beetle in question had been parked for nearly two decades before this YouTuber decided to rebuild the engine. Joy van Haelen rebuilt a 1978 Volkswagen Beetle engine as a learning ...

Without so much as a small press release, Volkswagen has updated the entire engine range of the Beetle in a big way. Just like the Scirocco, this two-door belongs to the old guard of the Volkswagen ...

Rotary engines will eventually make a comeback - we trust Mazda enough to tell you that. But for now, there aren't any production cars that have one installed. And that kind of makes a 1966 VW Beetle ...

The Beetle is powered by a 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine that, like the car, is kind of retro... but not in a nice way. Like Beetle engines of old, the five-cylinder is harsher sounding than most and ...

The New Beetle’s exterior styling and interior design (complete with a whimsical bud vase on the dashboard) were clearly one-of-a-kind, but its mechanicals were pretty standard VW stuff: A ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...