McBride estimates that the Karmann Ghia gets between 30 and 35 miles per gallon on the highway, and he has taken it on some ...

An ordinary VW Beetle underneath, the Karmann Ghia blends practicality with Italian styling. It also has an interesting ...

Some vintage cars get respect without being wildly expensive, exceptionally elitist or notably rare. Volkswagen’s Type 14 Karmann Ghia is both an automotive gem and an affordable sports coupe — a well ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia is one of those car that even non-gearheads tend to like, because it's just a fundamentally pretty object. It's elegant and friendly and curvy and sleek all at once, while ...

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 ...

For people who can't stand the sight of a Volkswagen." That's how VW marketed the Karmann Ghia, a beautiful car born from one of automotive history's most fruitful love triangles. In 1949, Karmann, a ...

America has Mustangs and Camaros as classic cars, models with cool sounding names and big V8s under the bonnet. Europeans have that too, but they also have stuff like the VW Karmann Ghia Type 34, a ...

The Karmann-Ghia TC isn't one of those cars that haunts my brain every moment, but every time I see one I think to myself that if, somehow, a magic horse were to appear and offer me a mint-condition ...

About the time you read this, somewhere out on the vast, flat heartland of America, a squadron of Karmann Ghias is bombing down the highway, celebrating form, function—and the fact that they’re all ...