Here is the rarest and most expensive Volkswagen ever built. It's a bizarre, wide-bodied, and whale-tailed machine, packed with carbon fiber, aluminum, all-wheel-drive, and the first narrow-angle ...

Six-cylinder hot hatches have always been a rare thing, and although Europe and Japan have enjoyed a select few over the years, only one has ever really made a real impact in the US: the Volkswagen ...

Some of us were never fans of the Beetle, but we got to hand it to Volkswagen for making one hot limited edition of the ‘people’s car’, based on the second generation. It was dubbed the Beetle RSi, ...

When it comes to unicorns from within the Volkswagen Group, the exceptionally rare Beetle RSi is unquestionably one of the most intriguing. Built for just two years between 2001 and 2003 and ...

Volkswagen Beetle RSi, you've officially been out-crazied. Volkswagen's Global RallyCross Beetle is, at least in my book, the most extreme Beetle ever. So what if it's a race car and not a production ...

The early '00s really were an incredible time for wild VW projects. There seemed to be no holding back on any kind of idea, be it Lupo 3L or Bugatti Veyron. And let’s not forget a 4.0-litre W8 in a ...

The VW Beetle RSi definitely belongs to the latter category — how else could we describe a Beetle powered by a 224 PS (221 hp) 3.2-liter VR6 engine? Built in a limited run of 250 units between 2001 ...

Still in production today, the 30-year-old VR6 is one of the most innovative engine designs of all time. During its lifespan, it powered a huge list of VW Group vehicles, including the van-based VW ...

I've always felt the feminine nature of the hurts my manliness factor when I'm driving one, so when I heard about the New Beetle Turbo S, I had visions of it looking like a son-of-RSi (, December 2001 ...

While most of you were enjoying the Woodward Dream Cruise or the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, either in person or online, a contingent of us were getting our Beetle on in Travemunde, Germany at ...