The front-wheel-drive Golf GTI is still the everyman’s sports hatchback, offering affordable thrills since the ’70s, but VW’s R division has been churning out more extreme all-wheel-drive ...

Happy birthday, Beetle! This week marks 70 years since Volkswagen first started producing the Bug at its Wolfsburg plant after the end of World War II. This week marks a milestone in the history ...

The Vanagon replaced the Type 2 in 1979. Diesel powertrains were starting to appear in VW models at the end of the ‘70s. A Cabriolet version of the Golf/Rabbit was also available from 1980 ...