Hi All, Just to let you know Adam is slowly putting on our Southern African adventures plus photo’s and video clips. We are both well and now on our way north up the west coast of Africa after being able to obtain our Angola, DRC and Congo visa’s. Victor is doing well after having a [...]

Volkswagen Nils Concept Car shown at the 64th IAA Motor Show (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 24, 2011.

Bug-In moves to Irwindale The Flat-4 Bug-In 37 will be held at the Irwindale Speedway! We are sure that a lot of you have heard the stories and rumors, both fact and fiction, about the closing of both the Irwindale and Fontana Drag Strips. Irwindale closed because the Irwindale facility filed Chapter 7 and management [...]

Hole Shot Photography is certainly at the top of the list for quality, exciting VW event photography. Stephen Hawes is the owner of Hole Shot Photography and runs www.holeshotphotos.com and www.vwracingnews.com when he isn’t on site shooting an event. Stephen attended advanced photography training in Virginia from 1994-1996 and has covered NHRA, IHRA, Pinks, Pinks [...]

Elayne sent us these cool images and the trio of Globtrotters, Chris, Elayne and poor old Victor the Adventure Buggy, traversed through Africa. Now this looks like fun. But can you imaging comming across a full on Class 1 Unlimited race care in the middle of Lion Country.

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Man I don’t know what I was drinking, smokin’, if this was just a dream or leftover from one of those mental stupors in college or what, but whatever it is I want one!

Co-Sponsored by Rancho, LAT Racing Oils, McKenzies, Jimco, KarTek, VP and BFGoodrich, Jimmy Slaughter’s latest dominator is one bad ass, state of the art desert racer. After proving it’s metal and capability as a front runner during the Rage at the River event it is obvious this will be a machine to watch closely in [...]

Petro obviously has a grip on the inner passion of VW enthusiasts and lays it all out in his awesome art work.

SEE THROUGH TIRES Can you imagine a set of these on your slammed VW!!! Radical new tire design by Michelin were recently displayed at the Philadelphia car show. Rumored for the past couple of years, Michelin has annouced that the revolutionary TWEEK tires may be hitting dealer showrooms as early as August 2012. The next [...]