Today’s Horrorod comes with a serious side – not only is it a gruesomely slow and dilapidated, but it was owned by a notorious murderer and was the site of many deaths. Jack Kevorkian was a well known advocate for euthanasia (not to be confused with ‘youth-in-asia’ – that is much different) and assisted suicide […]
We at the Daily Turismo don’t share Jeremy Clarkson’s (of Top Gear fame) cellular level hatred of the VW Beetle based on its “woeful handling or the involvement of Hitler in the original design,” but we do think they are for the most part slow and boring. This 1969 Volkswagen Beetle based “casket car” currently bidding […]
The B3 generation Volkswagen Passat was essentially a larger version of the VW Golf – sharing the pluses (cost, ease of repairs) and minuses (quality, frequency of repairs). Production started in 1988 and continued in some fashion until very recently for the taxi cab market in China. This 1992 Passat is equipped with the G60 […]
The Volkswagen Beetle is one of the most customized vehicles in existence due to its cheap price, simple mechanical parts and seemlingy endless production run- with 21 million of the little machines built from 1938-2003. This VW Trike-car…something doesn’t have much Volkswagen left, but apparently is titled as a 1965 VW and is ‘legal’ to […]
The Volkswagen Type 181 was originally developed for German Military use, but was sold to us normal folk from 1972-80 as the VW ‘Thing.’ It was the original Thing – and like Howard Hawks’ “The Thing from Another World” it was unique, captivating and just a bit frightening. This 1973 Volkswagen Thing with 1100 original […]
The Volkswagen Type 2 (colloquially known as the VW Bus or VW Van) was sold in the USA from 1967-1979 (it is still manufactured and sold in limited quantities in Brazil!) and was available as a Transporter, Kombi or Microbus – but never as a Baja Safari style ride. Some enterprising individual addressed that issue…and […]