SAN DIEGO — An American racer who competed in the Baja 500 has a story to tell. Mike Steel didn’t win the race – his Class 11, Baja bug broke down – but he won in the end. Class 11 Volkswagen bugs are ...

Eric Solorzano’s garage is a working race shop that feels more like a church. Speed is worshipped here. So is cold beer, loud Santana, the love of friends and family, and the famously rough city of ...

Volkswagen has teamed up with Rhys Millen Racing to enter one of the all-electric utility vehicles in the five-day Norra 1000 race in Baja, Mexico. It's not in it to win it, but to test the durability ...

Next year’s course for the Baja 1000, the 2026 race, will start and finish way down at the southern tip of the peninsula in ...

The Volkswagen ID.4 is arguably more important than any other model in the car company’s lineup; it may also be the dullest. It does the job of a spacious electric commuter, and it’s paving a path for ...

Volkswagen is known for dominating Red Bull Global Rallycross, with the Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Team’s highly modified Beetles winning both the driver and manufacturer championships for the ...

Last weekend’s Off-Road Expo in Costa Mesa, California, was a pretty big deal for the desert racing and 4x4 communities. “Off ...

The challenge intensified when an untested engine and fuel setup was prototyped for race conditions. Greasecar Motorsports' goal was to prove that a diesel engine powered by pure vegetable oil could ...

The influx of electric cars to the U.S. auto market has led manufacturers and buyers to start testing the capabilities of these vehicles in ever more elaborately extreme situations. Since introducing ...

Since its inception, the Baja 1000 has attracted Beetles by the dozen, and to celebrate 50 years of competition, Volkswagen of America is sponsoring the ProjectBaja.com Class 11 Beetle. In case you ...

Over the years, the iconic Volkswagen Beetle has served as a platform for very creative automotive projects, having been reimagined into everything from a drag monster or dune buggy to a pickup and ...

VW of America has announced that it will be sponsoring the ProjectBaja.com Class 11 VW Beetle in the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000 race in mid-November. The race team is based in Denver, ...