A man named Fred has built a modified Volkswagen minivan. Not normally Top Gear-worthy news, you might think, except the part where it gets to a 911 Turbo engine and 523bhp. Pray be upstanding, all, ...

Volkswagen has made it quite clear that its future is electric, but its motorsport division, appropriately called Volkswagen Motorsport, is following the leader. This past Friday, VW Motorsport ...

Massive turbo power hits the strip! Watch this epic Viertelmeile (1/4 mile) drag race finale from 2012 as a heavily modified VW Polo with a 3.3L turbo engine battles a 700 hp Opel Kadett. Explosive ...

Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, designer of the Volkswagen, had a lot on the ball. While it is true that the good doctor is noted for having designed some far-out racing cars before he tackled the "people's ...

I know there are lots of car engines that got stuffed into pretty much everything: the Iron Duke was shoved into everything from Camaros to mail trucks, and the original Volkswagen air-cooled ...

Automakers love to remind us how "close" our electric and autonomous future is, while a lot of major racing divisions they participate in remain powered, at least partly, by internal-combustion ...

Volkswagen is keeping a watchful eye on the development of new Formula One technical regulations envisaged for 2012, with a view to building a new engine and supplying it to "customer" teams. With ...

If you happen to be one of the countless Walter Mitty types — losing sleep over the fact that a race car is not in residence in your garage — then serious consideration might be given to Formula Vee.

The history of desert racing in the United States and Mexico is in a large part the history of old Volkswagens, specifically, their engines: These air-cooled flat fours powered thousands of race cars ...

When it comes to buying a daily driver, few factors are as important as reliability. Since the engine is the very heart of a motor vehicle, it serves as an invaluable foundation of a car's true value ...

The VW diesel scandal began with a bang on September 18, 2015. On exactly the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its ...