In the early 1950s, Karmann already had a contract to build the the Beetle cabriolet at its Osnabrück factory, but convincing Volkswagen to make a sportier model was an uphill battle. VW rebuffed ...

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 ...

An ordinary VW Beetle underneath, the Karmann Ghia blends practicality with Italian styling. It also has an interesting backstory, having been designed by an Allied secret agent. This one is in ...

It is one of more than 445,000 examples of the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia built between 1955 and 1974. Jeff McBride of Meriden has owned his 1971 Karmann Ghia since 2012 but it looks vastly different ...

The collaborative concept was envisioned by Luigi Segre, owner of Italian styling studio Carrozzeria Ghia, and Wilhelm Karmann, whose coachbuilding firm was already manufacturing Beetle convertible ...

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 ...

Volkswagen has made a wide variety of visually attractive vehicles throughout its 90-year history. From its Beetle-based rear-drive, air-cooled era to its front-drive, water-cooled cars that began in ...