I return to you people from air-cooled Volkswagen Project Car Hell, only to find Hagerty's video of a Beetle engine getting re-built. It looks so simple! It's such a tiny engine! Everything fits ...

The folks at Hagerty sure do love their timelapses, and their latest one might be the coolest yet. It's a six-minute clip of a Volkswagen Beetle engine being completely torn down and rebuilt, start to ...

Hagerty’s latest engine rebuild video revolves around a 1972 Volkswagen Beetle flat-four, and it could not possibly come at a worse time for me. Despite a very full garage, I almost bought an old Bug ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...

The Volkswagen Beetle (also called the VW Type-1) is one of the most recognizable vehicles of all time. In the United States, it was the de-facto symbol of counterculture hippies of the 1960s and ...

Air-cooling was a hallmark of Volkswagen since it began in the late 1930s. Throughout most of the 20th century, VW was motoring free from the cruel, wet tyranny of water—heavy, leaky radiators, and ...

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If you are not at least moderately informed about how engines work, you may still be aware that they all require water, or antifreeze, in order to function. It is true that some form of coolant is ...

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