Today's Nice Price or No Dice VW Thing is like a Cars 101 class—a basic introduction to the motor vehicle and nothing more. Let's see if we can all make an educated guess about what it might ...

The Volkswagen Type 181 was known under many names across the globe, but none was more fitting than the one it got in the U.S. - the Thing. Follow us: Bear in mind this was before the sci-fi horror ...

Designed with extreme modularity in mind, the MEB electric vehicle platform will allow Volkswagen to make money building any sort of EV it wants—with the exception of the joyous ID.Buggy concept, of ...

The Volkswagen Type 181, sold as the Thing in the United States, is one of the weirdest cars ever sold to the public and this example we recently stumbled across is more bizarre than most. VW ...

I'll back up and give a little more background here. The VW Type 181, called the "Thing" here in the US, was a sort of update to the WWII wartime variant of the Beetle, the Kubelwagen. The 181 was ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

Volkswagen rolled out "The Thing" in 1973 to the United States, hoping to appeal to surfers, hippies, and counterculture-types who had adventure coursing through their veins. It was boxy, stubby, and ...