2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo (Automatic) Engine: 2.0L inline four cylinder, 16V, turbocharged/intercooled, TSI Power: 200hp, 207lb-ft. Fuel Economy: 22 city/30 hwy ...

Perhaps not the most profound words ever spoken, but directed at the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle by a burly construction worker on a break from digging a very large hole with an even larger piece of ...

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 ...

The comparison to that hot hatch might seem a bit unfair for what looks like a sun-loving, droptop cruiser meant for the boulevards of Southern California, but it wasn't as much of a stretch as you ...

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VW has introduced its new, Mexico-made EA888 Gen 4 2.0-liter turbocharged TSI engine to the Beetle Turbo, Beetle Turbo Convertible and Jetta GLI. The new unit is slightly more powerful while also ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is an undeniably cute car -- from the original all the way to today's retrofied-Jetta -- and we won't question that. But after having the car for just one month, we're already ...

The oval-window Beetle produced until 1957 is more desirable than the large-window version, while the pre-1953 split-window ...

If you were a young person in the 1960s, you almost certainly rode in a Volkswagen Beetle. If you were lucky, you owned one. And it was bitchin’. If you lived in Southern California, you might have ...

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 ...