30 years doesn’t just happen overnight. You may have already read about the hard work that has gone into making our company what it is today, but here is how we chose to celebrate the 30th Anniversary itself.
The humble 1500 ‘notch’ was introduced in 1961, but who would have imagined back then that one day someone would increase capacity to a far more hairy 2275cc, then bolt on a blower? This totally pristine ’64 example has had the Dub world drooling for the last few years, but now it’s actually come up … Continued
Volkswagen’s made its mark in the world of motorsport on virtually every surface, racking up numerous successes on asphalt, gravel, snow, ice and desert and what began in the mid-1960s with Formula Vee is now continuing into the future with the Polo R WRC…
Craig Hughes, editor of VW Magazine Australia, sent us this this report of his various VW motorsport activities down under in their Formula Vee and early Mk1 Golf…
A beautifully prepared Oldspeed 1953 ‘Zwitter’ racer which has been featured in a number of magazines both here and abroad has gone to a buyer in the States.
A Jetta from the original Fast & Furious, driven by Jesse in the 2001 mad hat road race epic, sold at auction recently for an astonishing £31,650.
If bolting a 5000bhp engine to the flat bed of an early VW split window pick up sounds totally nuts, wait until we tell you that it could theoretically do 0-270mph in under seven seconds! We talked to the creator of this 1958 pick up, technical genius and VW Heritage customer Perry Watkins…
If it had pushed ahead with production of its steroid pumping Mk3 Golf A59, VW could have become a key player on the motorsport scene in the early nineties. Not only that, but the Mk3 Golf as a whole could have enjoyed a far rosier fate. Here’s the story of what might have been Wolfsburg’s … Continued
It’s a given that people make new year’s resolutions so they can break them later on. But actually having a few objectives to kick start 2016 isn’t such a bad idea – even if you don’t actually manage to achieve all of them…
When you’re struggling to juggle work, life and family commitments it’s easy to lose focus on your car project – and that’s precisely what happened to 35 year-old Irishman Liam Neale. Fortunately for him, though, his soon-to-be wife Caroline and VW nut friends were on hand to put him and his drag Beetle back on … Continued
