Despite the lengthened front end, the boxer engine remains at the back. This one-of-a-kind Super Beetle has spent 40 years in the same family. The original VW Beetle holds a place in automotive ...

But, fuel savings or not, it'll be better than the base engine. (For high rollers, there's also a high-performance Turbo Beetle with the same engine as the VW GTI.) ...

VW has given the Dune the 1.8-liter, turbocharged, direct-injection engine that powers many of its Jetta, Golf, Passat and Beetle cars. It produces 170 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque ...

Franz Xavier Reimspiess refined the design work, and, just like that, the iconic "prototype 1" (the basis for what would become the VW Beetle) flat-four engine was born. Though it came with some ...

Both engines are closely related, being members of what VW ... at the engine last July courtesy of Audi.) The 1.8T replaces the 2.5-liter inline-five as the primary motivator in the Beetle ...