Volkswagen is again reaching back to the future with a new concept for an electric car that revives the look and spirit of the classic VW-based dune buggies of 1960s California. The I.D. Buggy follows ...

MALIBU, Calif. — When it comes to its iconic Beetle, Volkswagen is finding new ways to tap into feel-good nostalgia of its heyday when humble bug was cheap transportation for Boomers. VW created a ...

DETROIT— Grab your snowboard or sandboard and go. That’s the idea behind a dune buggy concept car version of Volkswagen’s Beetle unveiled Monday at the Detroit auto show. VW envisions the Beetle Dune ...

VW never built its own dune buggy, but many were created using Beetle chassis, from which the body could be easily removed. In a similar fashion, the new one would be based on the company’s new ...

Decades ago, the beaches and dunes of California were invaded by a strange metal animal: a weirdly shaped car with large wheels, wide tires, and no fixed roof or doors. This year, it comes back. The ...

Want Volkswagen's sweet electric dune buggy? You're in luck, as multiple executives across the company told us the electric two-seat concept almost certainly will be produced. When the wraps came off ...

In keeping with its once and always retro theme, Volkswagen brought 93-year-old Bruce Meyers, father of the famous Meyers Manx dune buggy to the New York show, where the soft-spoken, grandfatherly ...

Volkswagen debuted the Dune concept, a dune buggy version of the Beetle, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Monday. The Dune is intended as low concept version of the Beetle ...

The legendary Meyers Manx emerged in the early 1960s as a funky dune buggy with VW Beetle running gear. Though it’s one of the most recognizable kit-type vehicles around, the original design hasn’t ...

Electric cars can be earnest, sensible, and green, but Volkswagen is taking the opportunity to show EVs can just as much be silly, playful, and neon green, with the VW I.D. BUGGY concept at the Geneva ...

Meyers, now 94, founded his first company in the mid-1960s to market his VW Beetle-based kit, which was offered through 1971. He then rebooted the brand in 2000 and has been selling the buggys and ...