Tagged beetle

Many moons back I remember setting out in my old Beetle on a drizzly morning to go and have some pretty major surgery performed on the old car down Bristol way at Beetles UK Ltd. I was going to get a traditiona...

A little over ten years ago, on a miserable rainy winter Sunday I was sitting on a sofa in a local pub with a couple of friends. We were wondering how to generate enough excitement in our lives to keep us going...

I remember as a boy taking weekly shopping trips to the supermarket on a Friday at 7pm with my best friend and his mum. We didn’t have a car so they would drive us in their Beetle, a perfectly running little ...

Now here’s a thing, a Bugatti Veyron from 1945. But all is not quite as it seems. This is computer generated design from the creative mind of ‘Rc82 Workchop’ a designer who has created a vivid imagining o...

From the new driver personalising a new car, to flower-power bugs and campervans, to the modern Beetle with it's flower carrying bud vase to grass covered automobiles, flowers and flower motifs seem to go hand ...

If you haven’t heard much about the EU proposal for “periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers” then you no doubt will soon. The first thing to say right at the top end of this a...

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week celebrated its 25th anniversary this August. As part of the celebrations, Discovery Channel teamed up with Volkswagen to create a very different type of shark cage – a Beetle ...

Any day that gives me the news that classic cars will feature on tv other than just in the background of an old film is always a bonus day. Today is such a day, Classic Car Rescue it has been announced, wil...

The VW 1.0 litre Up! is an award winning small car that What Car? described as the “..best city car on the market..” and made it their Car of the Year 2012. But when the Up! was launched at the Frankfurt A...

Looking after the UK website for Nissan in my old job was always an interesting experience, from the chap on a remote Scottish Island desperately seeking a forklift truck engine part for his home-made boat moto...

Recently I looked at the fascinating history of automobile paints (you can see that article by clicking here). The advance in technology that gives some show cars that wow factor – deep, bottomless pools of ...

For anyone that is in the process of restoring a classic automobile there comes a time when you reach the exciting part – the dirt, grease and grime has temporarily gone, and now you can consider the wheels a...

I was recently perusing with amusement, a website of some of the worst cars of all time. The list is fascinating; while it could be argued that it might be a bit harsh to judge a vehicle from the early part of...

Performance Direct are well known for saving Volkswagen drivers money on their VW insurance. In fact we love a nice vee dub here in the office and one of our blog writers, Sean Neylon, is in fact the proud owne...