Antony Ingram August 20, 2013 Comment Now! It's one of Volkswagen's most iconic models--but was neither designed nor built by Volkswagen itself. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first Karmann ...

A Type 1 "Beetle," dressed in a designer suit, the Type 14 Karmann Ghia was Volkswagen's second mass-produced passenger car and its first sporty model. When I was a teenager, one of the first trips I ...

The iconic Volkswagen Beetle is presently dead, perhaps this time for good. The Germans killed the line in the summer of 2019, and they don’t seem to be planning a comeback of the nameplate, not even ...

Volkswagen ends production of the Karmann Ghia on July 21,1974, at a plant in Osnabruck, West Germany. First sold as a 2+2 coupe, built from 1955–74, and later a convertible, 1957–74, the Karmann Ghia ...

Protoype shown to VW boss in November 1953 Stylish Karmann Ghia gave VW an upscale model All-Beetle underneath%2C it nevertheless came across as sporty Just about 60 years ago, a guy who worked for ...

Volkswagen launched the Karmann-Ghia, a coupe based on the famed Beetle, at the Kasino Hotel in Westfalia, Germany, on July 14, 1955. The car, positioned above the Beetle, was created to help VW move ...

Controversy still swirls around just how much German coachbuilder Karmann actually contributed to the design of Volkswagen’s eternally lovely Karmann-Ghia. But then one might expect many claims to ...

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Engine swaps are a dime a dozen, especially LS swaps. Those ahve become so common that there’s a mock-up tool designed to help you check if your car’s engine bay can take the GM V8. Body swaps are a ...