The long waits and high prices on real S30s were probably what inspired a small company in called SIE Motor Corporation to create a VW Beetle kit car in 1976, that based its styling on that of the ...

By 1980, he once again exited the kit car industry to start a jewelry business ... pricing will likely be roughly in line with the other VW-based buggies on this list.

KIT CAR needs its readers as well as its advertisers ... when I was hired into VW Trends, our air-cooled VW-based book. I've had 14 or so Volkswagens over the years (from splits to Ghias) and ...

but several companies sought to change the status quo with easy-to-assemble kit cars based on old air-cooled Volkswagen mechanicals. In Brazil, one of those companies was L'Automobile ...

The frames are designed to work with most VW-based kit cars, although a large majority of Mid-Engineering cars use the Kelmark GT body. A variety of engines can be used, including big- and small ...

On Halloween, Volkswagen filled our SEMA ... rotors from Racingline. This show-car GLI is also home to Racingline’s TrackSport coil-over suspension kit Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family ...

However, the Volkswagen Lamando 5XL is as real as it gets. It’s not a series production vehicle but the result of a Canadian-based Chinese influencer’s ambition to show the Germans that cars ...

Volkswagen is a mainstream automaker founded ... which made it distinguish itself from the countless other Beetle-based kit cars that were circulating around Brazil at the time.