Every year, Guinness World Records receive around 50,000 applications from aspiring record-breakers. It is a competitive field to be on, and it is doubly so in the world of motorsports and transportation, where records can be broken with just milliseconds of difference.  Volkswagen is not new to breaking records. To celebrate Guinness World Records Day, here is a look back at the nine times that Volkswagen and its … [Read more...]

Cars weren’t really on Eric Shoemaker’s radar. A designer and entrepreneur at heart, his main interests were woodworking, furniture restoration, and photography. These days, however, he and his wife Amanda run a business that restores air-cooled German engine components, and his website, 1967beetle.com, is a great resource for tech tips, classifieds, and Volkswagen stories from people all over the world. If not for … [Read more...]