For many, seeing a Volkswagen Bug brings a smile to their face, but the Twisted TBug might come with plenty of questions.

These Baja Bugs look pretty much exactly like the ones I remember from my misspent youth; they’re the more common “close eye” style, with close-set headlights and cut-away fenders all around ...

A VW Baja Bug isn't a car as it is a lifestyle choice. Why would someone, of relatively sound mind and body, choose a car with an exposed engine, no mufflers or emissions equipment of any kind ...

For decades, the VW Beetle ubiquitously roamed the interior of Baja California.The short-wheelbase “bug” with the air-cooled engine was the perfect vehicle for negotiating the dusty, rocky and ...

To many, the Baja Bug represents a nostalgic, bygone era in off-roading. I personally had a 5/1600 and loved it even after I wadded it up prerunning the 500 many, many years ago.

I could feel one wheel dangling in the air. Then everything started to heave over. I thought I could just throw my weight across the passenger seat to stop the car, but gravity didn't care. 'Shit ...

Land Rover-specialist Twisted Automotive is showing off its take on the Baja Bug. Called the "TBug," it looks like 10 pounds of fun in a five-pound Yorkshire pudding.

Jim Armillotti Jr. remembers the night his grandfather showed up in the 1966 blue Baja Bug he had just driven cross-country from California. “I was all excited,” Armillotti recalled of first setting ...

In the other lane, we have a 1970 VW Bug, or at least the shell of a Bug. The rest of it is pure off-road madness, with an 850-horsepower LS3 V8 topped by a 4.5L Whipple blower.

Modified with exposed engines and fiberglass body parts, these Baja Bugs— as they have been known since the first ones appeared in Orange County, California, in the early 1960s— have all but ...

This Bug and its owners love Baja. "We do several trips a year," Jeff told us. "We go 600 to 1,200 miles at a time with friends and family. We have our own chase truck and crew that meet us at ...

By purchasing the cheapest running Baja Bug it could find—the “ScumBug.” Costing a mere $2,500, the purpose for the Donut Garage to obtain the Baja Bug was to head down to the Baja 1000 to ...