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Normally, when you think about a VW Beetle turned into a Baja Bug two things can spring to mind - a fiberglass shelled beach vehicle or a battered Mad Max-like dune jumper. Still, this one we ...
The Beetle Dune pays homage to the Baja Bugs of decades past with a raised ride height, a distinctive exterior color and some other visual cues.
Even though we're primarily a truck magazine, each of us has come to respect and admire the off-road prowess of VW Bugs and their tube-chassis offspring. Compac ...
Volkswagen will be bringing the Beetle Dune, which it first unveiled at the 2014 North American International Auto Show, into production. Inspired by classic Baja Bugs, the Dune, which was shown ...
After a lot of teasing, Volkswagen has finally rolled the Beetle Dune into showrooms. We spent a week with one the vehicles that harkens back to the Baja Bugs of the 1960s and 1970s, and although ...
2016 Volkswagen Beetle Dune; | Cars.com photo by Steven Pham Volkswagen introduced the 2016 Beetle Dune at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show, a modern take on the off-road-oriented Baja Beetles of old.
Back in the days of air-cooled engines, you could buy a lift kit for the VW Beetle and turn it into an offroad buggy. This thinking eventually led to the development of the Baja Bugs in the 70s ...
One car that absolutely embodies everything I've mentioned is called the VW Baja Bug. Here are a few reasons why you need to drop everything and buy one.
To compete in an event as punishing and exhausting as the SCORE Baja 1000, you need a vehicle that’s as rugged and robust as it is powerful and capable. Something like… a 1970 VW Beetle? That ...
VW is ending the long run of the Beetle. The car was in production, in various forms, for 80 years. A few years back, I tested an offbeat trim level — the Dune Beetle — and I was impressed.