After a week driving the 2025 VW ID Buzz, it was unclear to me who would buy one of these, but why they'd buy one was as ...

I’ve always said that what Australia was to marsupials, Brazil was to air-cooled Volkswagens. Usually when I say this I’m ...

(UK), Safari (Mexico), Camat (Indonesia), and Thing (USA) the Type 181 enjoyed a 15-year production run that saw over 90,000 of the utilitarian buggy built between 1968 and 1983. And Volkswagen ...

Like the slow migration of the Renaissance across 15th-cen­tury Europe, the concept of arched roof pillars has at last found its way into the previously medieval caverns of Volkswagen Design ...

the company developed and manufactured the Volkswagen Type 181 for the West German Army and then for civilian customers in the UK and the US, where the model was better known as The Thing.

The Kübelwagen was eventually sold to the public as a civilian vehicle, the Type 181, known as the ‘Thing’ in North America. In the late 1970s, Volkswagen developed the Type 183 ...

The complexity and computerization of modern cars have made retro classics like the VW Thing cool again. It was officially dubbed the Type 181, but was sold as the Trekker in the United Kingdom ...

Despite all these great features, there is still one thing missing from the lineup: a hybrid. VW hasn't offered a hybrid in the US since the Jetta Hybrid was discontinued in 2017 after being on ...

But with a Beetle Type 1 driveline and a Transporter Type 2 suspension, VW’s so-called “Thing”—Type 181, internally—was nobody’s idea of a high-performance vehicle. That might have changed this past ...

Once the mud is clear and replaced by concrete and steel, this 260,000sq m site will be the home of Volkswagen’s first ... holding as it does 181 carefully interleaved layers of copper anode ...