News - Powered by Yahoo NewsVW seeks male buyers with retooled Beetl
The New Beetle is dead. Long live the all-new Beetle, as Volkswagen calls the successor, squeezing together the adjectives just as it has squashed down the roof. The 2012 car abandons the iconic arched silhouette of its...
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:37:38 -0800 -
2012 Volkswagen Beetle TDI: Oil-Burning Bug to Have Debut at Chicago Auto Sho
The diesel Beetle uses the same 2-liter turbocharged engine that appears in TDI versions of the Passat, Golf and Jetta.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:36:14 -0800 -
2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI to bow at Chicago Auto Sho
The Volkswagen Beetle gets more efficient next week with the launch of the TDI engine option. (Credit: Volkswagen) So you like the new Volkswagen Beetle , but you wish it were a bit more fuel efficient? If so, you should stay tuned to next week's Chicago Auto Show because that's where VW will be debuting its new 2013 Beetle TDI. The 2.0-liter TDI engine carries over from the 2012 Jetta and Golf ...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:03:08 -0800 -
2012 Volkwagen Beetle: A sportier retro ico
Think of the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle as the New Karmann Ghia ? a sportier and more fun to drive version of the New Beetle that is still not quite a real sports car. As everyone knows, the original Beetle was an inexpensive, plain and simple car that became wildly popular, mostly among young ...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:14:57 -0800 -
Group to discuss tree-killing beetl
A citizen's group looking for alternate ways to fight the Asian longhorned beetle in Clermont County.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:22:31 -0800 -
Volkswagen release details of the 2013 Beetle TD
The Beetle will sport the same 2.0-litre TDI engine which is under the hoods of both the Passat and the Jetta.
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:56:27 -0800 -
Two Deaths: A Poet And A Beetl
Poet Wislawa Szymborska had an eye for the smallest, the gentlest, the hard-to-notice creatures on Earth and this week she bid them all adieu. Krulwich remembers Wislawa Szymborska.
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:12:53 -0800 -
2013 VW Beetle TDI Heads to 2012 Chicago Auto Sho
The new Volkswagen Beetle TDI goes on sale this summer as a 2013 model. | February 02, 2012 | Volkswagen of America, Inc. VW said the 2013 Beetle TDI will be rated by the EPA at 29 mpg in city driving and 39 mpg on the highway.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:26:51 -0800 -
In Beetle's creation story, a plot twis
The tale is intriguing: A Jewish engineer and journalist, whose designs and published work in the'30s laid out the basics for the Volkswagen Beetle championed by Hitler, was arrested, chased from Germany and nearly airbrushed out of history.
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:17:41 -0800 -
The VW Beetle travels two-way street in histor
As unlikely as it seems, the Volkswagen Beetle is one of the most persistent icons of imperial ambition. A car affordable to the masses - a Volkswagen , or "people's car" - was Adolf Hitler's least insane, longest-lasting pet project.
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