The round, Chrysler-inspired, 1950s-era regular Volkswagen Karmann Ghia is a familiar sight in the USA, but there were actually three different Karmann Ghias in all. The original recipe Type 14, the 1970s-era Brazilian Type 145…
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Volkswagen Type 147 Fridolin: Special Delivery
Seeing any Volkswagen Type 147 Kleinlieferwagen, colloquially called the Fridolin, is a real rarity, but a Swiss-market model rolling up anywhere in the U.S.? That’s a genuine unicorn, and we spied this Swiss-spec one at…
The Classic Type 3 Squareback
By the late 1950s Volkswagen was keen to expand beyond the Beetle but not eclipse it. That new car, furtively tooling around the Black Forest in prototype form, was the VW Type 3.