There are historical ties to some notable personnel in the air-cooled VW's history, for better or worse. One was Ferdinand ...

For decades, the massively popular Volkswagen Type-1 Beetle and the Type-2 VW Microbus or Transporter were powered by a unique air-cooled boxer engine. The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is ...

VW Beetle goes from air-cooling to electron power Over the past half century tens or hundreds of thousands of Type 1 Volkswagen Beetles have been transformed into other vehicles like dune buggies ...

Introduced in 1957 as a counterpart to the West German VW Beetle, the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced ...

and comes with a certificate of authenticity from VW and a numbered plaque on the dashboard identifying it as one of 600. The Microbus originally came equipped with an air-cooled 1.2-liter flat ...