Brothers Tony and Paul Greer are about to embark on a punishing 5000-mile trip that will take them from Hampshire to Europe’s most northerly town, 750 miles inside the Arctic Circle. And they’re doing it in a 1988 Mk2 VW Scirocco!
The K70 was a history changer – a car that bravely broke from tradition and formed the foundation stone for all subsequent VWs – cars that would ultimately raise Volkswagen from obscurity to virtual world domination. Yet today the K70 remains unloved and now virtually forgotten…
The list of celebrity VW bus owners has just increased by one, with news that top US baseball star Daniel Norris, has just bought a Bay Window Westy. But not only that, he intends to live in it!
Sporty VW SP2’s don’t come up for sale very often – so when this unfinished UK-registered project appeared in the classifieds, naturally we had to take a closer look…
Next Christmas, when you get all festive again and start singing ‘Good King Wenceslas’, spare a thought for the subject of this popular carol. Because, if a recent trip to Prague by VW Heritage boss David Ward is anything to go by, the good old king may have provided Volkswagen with the idea for its iconic VW emblem. … Continued
Potholes can be a killer and as local authority budgets are strangled, more of our road network is becoming blighted by craters, trenches and various other potential dangers. Now, however, a handy mobile app has been developed to make reporting such defects quicker, easier – and more likely to get sorted…
A what, we here you say. Well, it’s a custom built hot-rod themed car from the Seventies, fashioned on a fighter plane and based on Beetle running gear. And this whacky one off has come up for sale in Florida…
If you’ve got £70,000-£80,000 kicking around (it’s estimated sale price) then clear a space in your diary for the 21st/22nd of February and get yourself down to Stoneleigh Park near Coventry for the auction of this early, ultra rare right-hand drive factory Samba…
Putting Porsche power in a Beetle is nothing new, but when the people’s car inherits a beefier engine in a mid-engined position along with most of the Porsche’s running gear as well, we just had to take a closer look…
Having spent his childhood trundling around in his dad’s custom built Kemperink splittie, 48 year-old Dutchman Eric caught the bug himself – literally, and went on to own an impressive 10 Beetles of his own before finally buying his own Bay window as well. This is his story…
