With the exception of a few years in the early 2010s, the double-fronted Volkswagen Beetle, painted Hawaiian blue, has been a constant landmark along Route 66 in Salem Township. Created by Excel ...

The Volkswagen Beetle Was the Last Universal Car; VW Lets You Live Below Your Means; ... Their best quarter-mile run is a 10.56 at 128 mph at the Route 66 Raceway in Joliet.

SALEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- A landmark in Westmoreland County won't be going anywhere, despite a new business moving into the area. The icon Volkswagen Bug that sits up on a pole over Route 66 ...

Not only is it cute but it's perfect too. It's a 1966 Volkswagen Deluxe Sedan Beetle and it has what no other '66 VW had when it left the factory, a two-tone paint scheme.

Volkswagen again juices the Beetle's engine, increasing displacement to 1493 cc, netting another 3 horsepower and a badge update to "1500." In '67, the Bug inherits 12-volt electronics, dual ...

Perhaps not coincidentally, by the mid-1960s, the Beetle, along with the Volkswagen Bus, had become a car that was synonymous with the "flower power" movement. Fast forward another 30 years to the ...

We mention that only because it fills us with a sense of déjà vu: Back in 1975, when the end was near, Volkswagen introduced La Grande Bug, a top-of-the-line Super Beetle with high-end features ...

The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...