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A white Volkswagen Golf GTI leaves the city.

How Volkswagens Got Their Names

Automakers have long sought inspirations on how to name their vehicles. For example, Lamborghini has been known to name its vehicles after bulls made famous in the bullfighting scene. Other’s have named their vehicles after geographic locations such as the Chevrolet Corsica, the GMC Canyon, or the Kia Telluride. Volkswagen has also found its inspiration from different things …
A photo of the upcoming Volkswagen Golf R in a studio.

Volkswagen Teases the Most Powerful Golf Hatchback Its Ever Made

The Volkswagen Golf R is the higher-performing version of the already quick Golf GTI. While the GTI has to make do with front-wheel drive, the Golf R gets a more powerful engine and all-wheel drive. The result is that the Golf R is consistently one of the fastest cars Volkswagen makes. Since the eight-generation Golf …

Will the International Scout Return? VW Just Bought Navistar

Though there are still papers to be signed Volkswagen just bought Navistar International. The big rig truck manufacturers. But International didn’t always just make semi-trucks. It made the Scout SUV for 20 years and the Travelall which was like a Suburban. And it also made pickup trucks from 1907 into the mid-1970s. Since VW just …
A 1963 Lincoln Continental Limousine Cabriolet vehicle on display during a preview for the upcoming Coys Spring Classics auction at the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Hall in London

The Most Iconic Vehicles From the 1960s

The 1960s were, in many ways, the years that set a precedent for so many of America’s most formative cultural moments. It was a decade that saw humanity’s ascension to the moon and the depths in which our nation could sink in the treatment of its sons and daughters during the Civil Rights movement and …
A red Jeep Grand Cherokee has a been cut into a pickup.

Smyth Performance Jeep Pickup Kit Is Ready For Prime Time

Over the weekend, Mark Smith, founder of Smyth Performance, revealed the first finished Jeep Grand Cherokee pickup truck conversion kit from his company. It is a pickup for people who need a truck but do not want to pay the price of a new rig. The Jeep Grand Cherokee conversion kit backstory Smyth Performance is …

Volkswagen Group Selling Bugatti: Are Lamborghini And Bentley Next?

A German magazine is reporting that the Volkswagen Group is selling Bugatti to Rimac. It plans to finalize the sale by the end of this year. If it goes through, and by all appearances it will, Rimac will turn Bugatti into an all-electric brand. Are Lamborghini and Bentley the next to be offloaded by the …
Alex and Loz sharing a moment on the journey.

Would You Live in This Volkswagen Camper Van named Marty?

This is Marty, the Volkswagen T3 Syncro camper van conversion. He is a beautiful retro brown with gorgeous natural browns and beiges throughout. The couple thought out every texture and planned the space perfectly, creating this immaculate van life build that looks like something out of a vintage photoshoot. However, there is more than we …