This meant that the Beetle Convertible switched to the Super Beetle platform after 1971. The Super Beetle, a stopgap model made until the water-cooled Golf/Rabbit arrived, offered new front strut ...

In 1973, one of the last years of the non-convertible Super Beetle (standard-body Super Beetles ended in 1975), the curved windshield and switched-up dash created a third difference in the car's ...

1979 Super Beetle Convertible, 1982 Jetta and 1984 Rabbit GTI. These cars were all in varying states of condition, and we were only allowed to drive them through a nearby neighborhood, so they ...

Some men seem to think the Beetle Convertible a tad fey (women almost universally love the thing, by the way). We think that's odd, because the old Super Beetle Cabriolet and especially the ...

LOS ANGELES—The first air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle was imported into the U.S. in 1949 and the last in 1979. Park a '49 Type One VW Beetle next to a '79 Super Beetle and they look pretty darn ...

What's bright yellow, goes "beep, beep" and has giant eyelashes? It's Sandy, the 1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle convertible that Robert Lines surprised his wife, Kristie, and daughter Alisa with on ...

though the shoulder space seems as tight as the front-seat shoulder room in a vintage Super Beetle convertible VW brought along for comparison. (It's willowy, slow, and the controls are mysterious ...

Ever thought of a Volkswagen Super Beetle built on a new Porsche Macan EV? This render proves that it's possible and kind of ...

It's a 1978 Volkswagen Super Beetle convertible (the Beetle purists' least favorite Beetle, but who asked them?) converted to battery-electric power thanks to some parts from San Marcos–based EV ...

(Full disclosure: Volkswagen needed me to drive a 2015 Beetle Convertible so badly they dropped ... I bumped it up to a seven because the droptop is super easy to use. Just hold a switch above ...