Today's Nice Price or No Dice VW Thing is like a Cars 101 class—a basic introduction to the motor vehicle and nothing more. Let's see if we can all make an educated guess about what it might ...

How many Volkswagen Types can you name? The easy one is probably the Type 2 (Transporter), which is 75 this year, although it’s amazing how many car nuts don’t know that the original air-cooled Beetle ...

A team of detailers got a call from someone who owned a Volkswagen Thing one day. Yes, you read that right. It is a Thing. If the name sounds… too common, we'll fill you in right away. The original ...

Born late during the 1960s as the civilian version of the West German Army-designed Volkswagen 181, the Thing went by many alternate names depending on its sales market. At home it was the Kurierwagen ...

Commonly referred to as ‘The Thing’, Volkswagen’s Type 181 was offered in some less-known variants. One of them was the Acapulco Thing, whose production was limited to around 400 cars. Made from May ...

The Volkswagen Type 181, sold as the Thing in the United States, is one of the weirdest cars ever sold to the public and this example we recently stumbled across is more bizarre than most. VW ...

Love it or hate it, the Volkswagen Type 181, known in the U.S. as the Thing, is one of the automotive world's most distinctive vehicles. While the Thing is instantly recognizable, it also had a lesser ...