The Beetle and Bus were originally known as Type 1 and ... horsepower and even found its way into the Porsche 914. The air-cooled VW engine seems like a distant thing of the past to most.

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 ...

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 ...

But the bus is actually part of the Volkswagen Transporter ... but they kept the Beetle's 1100 VW air-cooled engine, a 1.1-liter flat-four boxer producing a meager 24 bhp. In adapting the ...

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 ...