The Volkswagen Vanagon holds a special place in my heart. I grew up fighting for shotgun, learning how to drive a stick and sweating across the country on Griswold-rivaling family vacations in a Vanagon. This is of course why I was especially impressed today when I encountered this monster lumbering eastward on the 10. I [...]

A Volkswagen camper going on a 20-mile round trip isn’t exactly Autofiends material until you consider how it made the trip: using fuel grown from pond scum. That’s right friends, green algae. The diesel Westphalia actually made the trip from Chicago’s West Side to the Sears Tower and back on a single gallon of [...]