There’s been models made of the Mk1 Golf but Corgi was so impressed by the soaring popularity of its successor, it decided to add a Mk2 to its range – basing its model on none other than Ray Partner’s famous show-winning 16v Tornado Red GTi. We got a scoop insight into how it all came … Continued
Fancy having a go at making a funky futuristic looking VW-based van that expands into a trailer tent? Well, you can now buy detailed plans telling you how to build it yourself, just in time for the summer holidays…
Metalwork magician Joe Rush is an artist who’s been collecting old machines and bits of old junk and rebuilding them into the cast of a story where the machines are the actors. His latest cool creation for this year’s Glastonbury Festival features a Beetle in the shape of a toad, no less…
If you fancy a bit of Mk1 fun this weekend or simply want to ‘try before you buy’ you’re in luck because Warwickshire-based car hire company The Open Road has just added a VW Golf GTi Cabriolet to its fleet…
Not totally content with LEGO’s splendid camper van kit, Italian Andrea Lattanzio could resist having a fiddle himself, building his own customised ‘canvas top’ version. Just so happens that while he was at it he constructed a spectacular classic VW themed workshop to go with it…
A concept car isn’t meant for general consumption, but one created by the styling department or design house as an ‘ideas’ car – something to inflate passions, push forward boundaries and inspire the imagination. Not ones to disappoint, VW featured in some of the most forward thinking ideas. Here are just a few of the more … Continued
There’s been rumblings in the old car scene about EU proposals to ditch the UK’s current number plate format in favour of a universal indexing system which would spoil the look of our older Dubs and do away with the whole concept of personalisation…
Those magnificent men in their flying machines now includes a German Type 3 Notchback owner, if the amazing pictures of his vehicle sporting helicopter like rotors and a spaceframe tail section are anything to go by…
May’s meet was another cracker; the weather gods were on our side, and it certainly encouraged a bumper turnout at our Burgess Hill HQ. Brighton based band, Deaf From Behind were the stars of our Warehouse stage, and added a great dimension to the meet playing their own brand of alternative rock which went down a … Continued
Not for a moment wishing to sound at all morbid, we’re all destined to shuffle off this mortal coil one day, to meet our maker and go knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door – and when we do, what better to do it than in a VW-themed hearse? Here are just some of the ‘dead … Continued
