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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 ...

I think there's at least two things Soichiro Honda and I have in common: we both can really rock a good jumpsuit, and we both love air-cooling, perhaps irrationally. The car I want to talk to you ...

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - With their unique air-cooled engines sputtering to life, brand-new classic Volkswagen minivans this month still chugged off the assembly line after a manufacturing ritual barely ...

Matthew Balls figured if VW had kept building air-cooled cars, this is how they would’ve done it… He’s a huge VW fan and has always owned them; in fact, he told us the best car he ever owned was a ’72 ...

Volkswagen’s boxy, air-cooled rear-engine Combi van is finally to go out of production in Mexico, Associated Press (AP) reported, adding that production in Brazil is also likely to end soon. The van ...

The folks at Hagerty sure do love their timelapses, and their latest one might be the coolest yet. It's a six-minute clip of a Volkswagen Beetle engine being completely torn down and rebuilt, start to ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...