Volkswagen, second-largest car maker in the world after Toyota, had been tinkering for two decades with a simple, compelling idea: design an updated version of the Microbus, the iconic ride of the ...

Before hippies discovered it, the Volkswagen Microbus/Station Wagon was for the fuel-economy-conscious bohemian suburbanite. [This story originally appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of MotorTrend ...

During the T1 era, VW made everything from fire-brigade pickup trucks to the most collectible of them all, the Deluxe Samba. Throughout the 1950s, Volkswagen’s Type 2 microbus was hardly a collectible ...

"This cute little JDM van might confuse people into thinking the Bus is affordable," maybe somebody at VW thought ...

It was January 2025 when the world woke up to a disaster. The fire that started in the Santa Monica Mountains spread its burning tentacles and soon engulfed Pacific Palisades, Topanga, and Malibu.