Here, on the anniversary of the founding of Volkswagen on May 28, 1937, LIFE.com offers a series of photos made by Walter Sanders at the company’s famous Wolfsburg plant in 1951.

Restored 1971 Volkswagen Microbus with Westfalia camper upgrades, rebuilt engine, and retro-modern touches, ready for road ...

How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard ... Volkswagen factory worker salaries with benefits are roughly $67 an hour compared with their competitors in the ...

Volkswagen held on for another couple of years and in 1976, the last American sales concluded. The EPA had finally banned the Beetle in America . It was the end of an era, although buyers at the ...

How to do so is not immediately obvious. Volkswagen’s troubles did not begin yesterday but are the result of a long series of bad decisions — both at the European Union level and in Germany.

So when Volkswagen announced in 2018 that it would convert its Zwickau factory, the largest private employer in the area, to manufacture nothing but electric vehicles, it was a big deal.

A Volkswagen factory in Tennessee has already set a vote that will take place over three days starting April 17. Tesla, Honda and Toyota factories are some of the union’s other targets ...

A Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to unionize Friday night, the first auto manufacturing facility to unionize in the American South since the 1940s. President Joe Biden issued a ...

Volkswagen has entered what it describes as the next phase of its factory overhaul in preparation for the commencement of local production of its still unnamed MQB A0 Entry SUV in 2027.

In 1945, a rare and curious Volkswagen car was shipped from its bomb-damaged German factory to England. Here, a commission of leading British motor manufacturers, chaired by Sir William Rootes ...