Volkswagen Beetle News
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It's been six years since the last Volkswagen Beetle TDI was on sale in North America, but Volkswagen has now announced a brand new model. Due to be launched at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, the 2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI is set to combine retro style with modern-day gas mileage. VW is predicting fuel economy of 29 mpg city, and 39 mpg highway. That's slightly off the ratings for VW's own Jetta TDI, which manages 42 mpg highway, but the EPA's ratings have been quite conservative with that car so the Beetle could prove to be particularly frugal in real-world driving. The Beetle's 2.0-liter...
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2013 VW Beetle TDI Diesel To Launch At Chicago Auto ShowAt last week’s Detroit Auto Show, we got our first glimpse of what an all-electric Volkswagen Beetle could look like thanks to VW’s e-Bugster concept car. At next month’s Chicago Auto Show, Volkswagen will unveil another green-minded Beetle, but this time we won’t be seeing...
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A Ten-Second Camaro Promotes Electric Drag Racing
The performance characteristics of electric motors make them ideal for drag racing, and one man is out to establish electric drag racing as a legitimate sport.
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Greenpeace Says VW Is Europe's Least Green Automaker: Video
In the United States, we often think of Volkswagen as a moderately green company -- an automaker responsible for small vehicles like the popular Golf and New Beetle, and one of the few companies to make diesel rides for the American market. Across the pond, however, Greenpeace has singled out VW as...
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2012 Volkswagen Beetle Loses the New and Gains Updated Lines
A while back (read years) AllSmallCars.com ran an article about the Volkswagen New Beetle and how it seemed to be a little long in the tooth for consumers. Indeed, the New Beetle as it had been called since reintroduction in the late ‘90s hadn’t seen a lot of change—at least none...
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2012 Volkswagen Beetle Revealed, Offers 40 MPG With Diesel Engine
It’s been more than a decade since Volkswagen’s new-generation ‘New Beetle’ first hit showrooms but a successor is finally here, making its debut this week at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show before reappearing just a couple of days later at the 2011 New York Auto Show. It...
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There seems to be no end to the number of organic materials that can be converted into usable biofuel to power a car. We’ve seen fuel derived from garbage before, a race car that ran on chocolate, and even a Volkswagen Beetle running on fuel generated from human waste, and now we have news of a biofuel developed from whisky by-products. Developed in--you guessed it--Scotland, more specifically, Napier University in Edinburgh, the new biofuel can be used in any regular car without the need to modify the engine. Furthermore, the fuel is a biobutanol type that generates 25 percent more power...
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Volkswagen Beetle Runs On Fuel Generated From Human Waste
We’ve seen fuel derived from garbage before, and even a race car that ran on chocolate, but now we have an even wilder concept: a Volkswagen Beetle running on methane gas derived from human waste. Yes, you read that correctly. The modified Volkswagen Beetle, or Bio-Bug, was developed as a...
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Next Generation VW New Beetle To Arrive In 2012
After 12 Years Of the Current Car, We Wonder What Will Come Next
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VW Releases Specs For E-Up! Electric Concept; Beetle of the 21st Century
According to Volkswagen, the E-Up! electric concept vehicle on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show will be the "Beetle of the 21st Century." The company promises it will be on our roadways by 2013. The E-UP! is based on the New Small Family platform that was introduced several years ago with the...
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2009 Volkswagen New Beetle: Do You Still Have the Bug For a Bug?
After More Than Ten Years the Beetle Reincarnation Still Lives On
Jonathan McGrew
