SAN DIEGO — An American racer who competed in the Baja 500 has a story to tell. Mike Steel didn’t win the race – his Class 11, Baja bug broke down – but he won in the end. Class 11 Volkswagen bugs are ...

Eric Solorzano’s garage is a working race shop that feels more like a church. Speed is worshipped here. So is cold beer, loud Santana, the love of friends and family, and the famously rough city of ...

A Volkswagen Beetle was made to get down and dirty. Why else would the lovable little craft be used continuously for the last 50 years to blast across the Mexican desert. Well, blast might be a strong ...

(We are saying goodbye to 2023 by re-visiting our favorite posts from the last year. To see why we loved these stories, check out what we said about them here.) The Baja 1000 is among the most ...

What do you do when you have a brand new Corvette C8, a drag strip, and an unlimited amount of YouTube airplay? You race it! That’s exactly what the folks over at Hoonigan love to do on their This vs ...

If you’ve ever thought about racing in Baja and wondered what it would be like, or maybe if you’ve already done it and want to be reminded what a desperate, rock-bashing hellfest it is, spend the next ...

A couple women had already gone into off road racing, but by the early 1970’s, only one had driven a Class 1 Unlimited Buggy. They even finished third in the 1972 Baja 1000; something that really ...

The Volkswagen ID.4 is arguably more important than any other model in the car company’s lineup; it may also be the dullest. It does the job of a spacious electric commuter, and it’s paving a path for ...