In short: This week car enthusiasts celebrated Volkswagen Beetle Day, an annual celebration of one of the most popular vehicles ever built. This week car enthusiasts celebrated Volkswagen Beetle Day, an annual celebration of one of the most popular vehicles ever built. Founder of luxury automaker Porsche, Ferdinand Porsche, proposed to Adolf Hitler the idea of a "people's car" in …
Mark Wagner isn’t sure what he enjoys more: the looks he gets when he pulls his ancient Volkswagen ragtop into a EV charger parking space, or the looks he gets because of what he does next. They’ve been replaced with a Curtis C-50 Brushless electric motor and part of an 85kWh battery pack scavenged from a Tesla Model S. “People …
At the beginning of winter, Ken Macken took the highway out to Chinchilla in Queensland's Western Downs to buy a 40-year-old ute — a dodgy-looking Datsun upholstered with strips of carpet and sheet metal. "There's a lot of people out there who love their classic cars, but don't want the issues of internal combustion engines," he says. "People realise this …
