The bus was a favorite of the hippie counterculture in the 1960s and surfers still today. In the 1950s, the Volkswagen arrived in the U.S., and the initial reception was not very good but after a ...

Ask most people to imagine the symbols of the late 1960s counterculture, and a few recurrent images will come up: guitars, ...

Back in 2023, Volkswagen showed off the U.S. version of the electric van meant to pay homage to the classic Type-2 Volkswagen Bus of the 1960s. With it came marketing materials that conjured up ...

In later decades, the VW bus was frequently used as shorthand to represent the 1960s as a whole, making appearances on the big screen and on TV whenever characters from that period were involved.

According to “Bug” by Phil Patton, when Grateful Dead musician Jerry Garcia died in 1995, Volkswagen ran an ad featuring a drawing of the front of a bus with a tear streaming down it. The bus was a ...