The Volkswagen New Beetle Turbo S is a terrible car for hauling sheets of plywood back from Home Depot or taking a family of five and their gear on a cross-country camping trip. Of course the same ...

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The upcoming 2012 Volkswagen Beetle is being billed as a substantial departure from the cutesy car it replaces. And if you’ve been waiting for your chance to put your name down for one of the first ...

No. 1 is dynamics. While the turbo Beetle swaps the low-rent rear torsion beam of its plebe siblings for a multilink setup—and our car had the sportiest available tune, a no-cost option—it ...

As in the coupe, a gas five-cylinder and an efficient diesel four-cylinder are also on the convertible’s order sheet—we’ve driven both—but the Turbo is the top dog. Its force-fed 2.0-liter four packs ...