From the February 1981 issue of Car and Driver. On April 10, 1978, America's first Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in ...

Today's 1981 VW Rabbit Convertible has been through 3 years of the rain and ash fall from the recent fires, with a window down. Is it worth cleaning up?

Around 9,000 DeLorean DMC-12s rolled off the DeLorean Motor Company assembly line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, in 1981. The ...

A disproportionate number of your most dangerous car stories featured a decades-old Volkswagen Beetle that needed upkeep, but ...

How hard can it be to build a pickup truck? You need a place for people to sit at one end, a bed to load stuff into at the ...

The hot hatch segment, with its unique combination of performance and practicality, has long held a special appeal for ...

Chrysler’s first-ever front-wheel-drive car—er, two cars, the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon—followed the closely in the VW Rabbit’s tire tracks, so it’s no surprise that when ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of vehicles sold in the United States employed rear-wheel drive. Four-wheel drive vehicles existed, but they were just a tiny fraction of the ...

Sharon Morrison’s teen years included driving a cream-colored 1970s VW Bug around Dallas. “The battery was behind the back seat, and at times, the car would catch fire,” she says.