From its first test run in Nazi Germany in 1938, the Volkswagen Beetle eventually rose to become a worldwide pop culture icon. The car was conceived by Adolf Hitler who commissioned Austrian engineer ...

The 1953 Volkswagen Beetle did not simply roll into showrooms as another imported oddity. It arrived at the precise moment ...

The spirited little Volkswagen Beetle first entered the U.S. in 1950 and charmed Americans with its round headlights and curved body, which emulated the shape of a ladybug. This unique car saw its ...

Back in the 1970s, the idea that Volkswagen might stop making the Beetle was unthinkable. The car and the brand that built it had become synonymous, and no one could imagine that VW would give it up ...

LOS ANGELES—The first air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle was imported into the U.S. in 1949 and the last in 1979. Park a '49 Type One VW Beetle next to a '79 Super Beetle and they look pretty darn similar, ...

Volkswagen marked the end of the Beetle production run with the Final Edition. Three months ago, the last example rolled off the assembly line in Mexico, and over the weekend, one of those cars was ...

Arriving at our shores in 1949, the Volkswagen Beetle swept America during the Summer of Love and became a symbol of the counterculture movement in the 1960s. Commissioned by Adolf Hitler and designed ...

It's the end of an era — an era that has stretched on for a very long time, albeit with slightly different silhouettes. The last Volkswagen Beetle, a third-generation Denim Blue coupe, will be ...