Execs hope the electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz can revitalize interest in the ailing German brand. The spiritual successor to the T2, reborn as an electric minivan decades later, edged out the ...

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.

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 ...

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is marking 75 years of the VW Bus, Europe’s longest-running commercial vehicle. On March 8, 1950, the first Transporter (T1) rolled off the Wolfsburg production line.

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 ...

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