In order to spice things up even further, the builder extended the wheelbase and chopped the cabin, turning the Super Beetle ...

heated front seats, cruise control and a folding rear seat. Three years ago, the New Beetle received its biggest update yet, trading its 1.8T engine for VW's 2.5-liter five-cylinder and gaining ...

Volkswagen again juices the Beetle's engine, increasing displacement to ... Just as the rear suspension was updated for 1969, the front suspension receives its first redo for 1971.

Car Culture, Inc.//Getty Images 1998 VW New Beetle The New Beetle wasn't quite as quirky as original car. Instead of the weird setup of engine in the back and luggage in the front, the new ride ...

Puebla, Mexico, where Volkswagen has ... driving its front wheels through a six-speed automatic transmission. (The manual gearbox bowed out in 2017.) This engine replaced the previous turbocharged ...

The driven wheels followed the engine placement, moving from rear to front. Of course, these changes were covered profusely when Volkswagen launched what it called the New Beetle in 1997.

Though critics scoffed at its front-drive Golf underpinnings, the New Beetle sold strongly ... For 2019, all Beetles get Volkswagen's venerable 2.0-liter turbocharged engine in 174-hp form ...

By 1969, VW was getting closer to what would ultimately become the Golf. Like the Golf, the EA276 was a boxy front-wheel-drive hatchback, but it was powered by a Beetle-sourced air-cooled engine.