Roadtrip competition, the winner's story

We would like to say a big well done to Owen Robb; who with the help of your votes has scooped £1000 towards his dream roadtrip in our Christmas competition! After a closely contested voting battle (only 36 votes separated the top 2) the reality of his Roadtrip to Worthersee can start to set in.

New app to report potholes

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…

Ultra rare Rib-Jet on sale

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…

1955 Samba under the hammer

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…

270bhp Boxster Beetle

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…

Catching the VW bug

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…

Mystery Porsche discovered!

Air-cooled Dub lovers the globe over are all too aware of the historic link between Volkswagen and Porsche and, if we’re honest, many of us still hanker after a nice 911. But we bet you’ve never heard of this oddball model that’s recently been found after a 50 year slumber…

Doodle bus

Back in the hazy crazy ‘60s it was all the rage to decorate your car’s bodywork. Inevitably flowers were a common theme. It seems the idea has had a bit of a comeback with this T25 bus in the States…

Is this the most expensive Mk1 Golf ever?

We all know Mk1 Golf values have gone through the roof recently, but who’d have imagined prices would one day bust through the £20,000 barrier! This 1983 GTi for sale at a classic specialist dealer in Surrey seems to have set a staggeringly high new benchmark for the original hot hatch…