Building a 400HP New Beetle doesn't happen by accident, instead it takes the right parts and serious know-how. When Volkswagen of America selected us to build a Beetle for the 2012 SEMA Show we had no ...

Volkswagen’s choice of Berlin for the launch of its 2012 Beetle inevitably struck us Yanks as curious – and not just because of the horrible abundance of construction projects in the city that makes ...

EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: To my eye, this slammed "new new" Beetle Turbo is the car Volkswagen should have created back when the company introduced the New Beetle. The lowered roofline and the ...

Because Shawn Davis, the host of the AutotopiaLA YouTube channel, confesses to not sitting in a Beetle for years, it was probably high time he made amends with the Bug fans. No worries, because this ...

I didn't spend much time in the Beetle Turbo but it doesn't take much time behind the wheel to appreciate VW's spunky 2.0-liter turbo four. The turbo spools up quickly -- all 207 lb-ft of torque are ...

Replacing the previous Volkswagen Beetle with its cute and bubbly shape, the new model introduced in 2012 is considerably more gender-neutral. Though getting over the car’s modern era stereotype will ...

I've always felt the feminine nature of the hurts my manliness factor when I'm driving one, so when I heard about the New Beetle Turbo S, I had visions of it looking like a son-of-RSi (, December 2001 ...

The Volkswagen New Beetle Turbo S is a terrible car for hauling sheets of plywood back from Home Depot or taking a family of five and their gear on a cross-country camping trip. Of course the same ...

While we're still not sure why anyone would pick the 2012 Beetle over the GTI, Golf R, or other platform-sharing models from Volkswagen, VW is plunging forward with its newly re-inspired car, using a ...

Volkswagen's 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine is getting a 10-hp boost; the engine is now rated at 210 hp while torque remains unchanged at 207 lb-ft. The engine will be available on the ...