75 years ago this month the VW bus began production. On March 8, 1950, Volkswagen, maker of the Beetle automobile ... While the newer-model buses continued to struggle with sales, the classic VW Bus ...

While we don't call them Type 1s today — the favorited term is either Beetle or Bug — the earliest Volkswagen turned heads ...

Iconic, however, doesn't necessarily mean any of these things. The Volkswagen Beetle doesn't exactly glow with any of these virtues (though some of them do sport some eye-catching paint jobs), but ...

known officially as the Volkswagen Type 2 (the Beetle was the Type 1) or the Transporter. Today in History: April 12, Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space Bay Area author shows another side ...