In fact, one of the simplest ways to tell if you have a Super Beetle is looking under the hood — and not the rear engine compartment hood. The trunk area in a Super Beetle is wider than a ...

The Super Beetle has a four-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, overhead-valve, four-stroke engine, located in the rear of the car. Beetles of this type got about 25 miles per gallon and had 11.1-gallon ...

Here's a 1971 Super Beetle in a Colorado wrecking yard. The build tag says this car came off the Wolfsburg assembly line in June of 1971, but it has the engine lid and steering wheel from a '72-up ...