As you know, the ghost of Marv Alpert's breakfast once gave me the solemn task of making weird air-cooled VWs known to a wide audience, and that's what I'm doing. This time, the car is VW's first (non ...

Air-cooling was a hallmark of Volkswagen since it began in the late 1930s. Throughout most of the 20th century, VW was motoring free from the cruel, wet tyranny of water—heavy, leaky radiators, and ...