Antony Ingram August 20, 2013 Comment Now! It's one of Volkswagen's most iconic models--but was neither designed nor built by Volkswagen itself. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first Karmann ...
Protoype shown to VW boss in November 1953 Stylish Karmann Ghia gave VW an upscale model All-Beetle underneath%2C it nevertheless came across as sporty Just about 60 years ago, a guy who worked for ...
Controversy still swirls around just how much German coachbuilder Karmann actually contributed to the design of Volkswagen’s eternally lovely Karmann-Ghia. But then one might expect many claims to ...
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 ...
Come September, there may be a birthday party in Wolfsburg, Germany -- but it won't celebrate one of the vehicles that helped make Volkswagen a household name. Instead, 2011 will mark the 50th ...
The 1950s saw opportunity knocking on doors worldwide for Volkswagen, which had launched the Type 1 Käfer (Beetle) and Type 2 Kombi (Microbus) toward the end of the previous decade. With both models ...
I was lucky enough to to drive two perfect vintage VWs: a 1963 Karmann Ghia and a 1964 Beetle. Here’s what I learned. When I found out VW was loaning out vehicles from its heritage fleet to members of ...
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 ...
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