Covers the Golf GTI and VR6. 

As the name suggests, it is heavily into customizing and sound systems etc.

Covers the VW watercooled models mainly with occasionally sporting aircooled models. Articles are on sound systems, tuning and people's cars etc. Back pages are classifieds, advertising vehicles and parts is free.

Covers the VW Golf mainly with occassionally other sporting models. Articles are on sound systems, tuning and feature cars etc. Back pages are classifieds and are FREE

This is a quality magazine aimed at the VW enthusiast. Mainly aircooled but includes features on a variety of VW oddities. New Beetles are often featured. An excellent read. This magazine is only available from specialist outlets or order on the website.

Quality of the articles are what makes this magazine

Volksworld. Monthly. Latest edition carries date of following month.

A magazine concentrating on Beetle, Type 2's Karmann Ghias etc.  Contains articles on the technical side, VW events and 'feature' cars. Back pages are classifieds. Click on the picture to visit their site.

Still a favourite with aircooled enthusiasts.

Volkswagen CAMPER & Commercial - Quarterly,

This magazine can only be bought through subscription. So you will need to access the website for details. Click on the picture. The magazine follows the same format as TotalVW it's sister magazine, but importantly also covers the watercooled as well as the aircooled. Shame TotalVW is so against such a merger. Ist issue is already out. Next issue out in March 2001. So order now to get a first issue.

Published by the same people who wrote TOTALVW so beware!

Volkswagen Driver (formerly VW Audi Car, Beetling) Monthly. 

This is a new mag for 2000. It is the result of VW AUDI CAR splitting to form VW Driver and Audi Driver. Edited by Paul Harris and Neil Birkitt (formerly of VWM and Bugpower). First issue came out on the 6 May 2000. 

Carries useful roadtests and technical insights. Has the occasional aircooled article for added flavour.

AMERICAN VW Magazines

February 1975 this magazine published an article entitled 'The Californian Look'. Do I need to say any more. Get a copy of that magazine and you definitely have a collectors item.

Covers the VW aircooled & watercooled range. Articles are on latest models, technical insights, events etc. There are loads of adverts and is a light read. Is probably the longest running American magazine. Click on picture to visit their site.

This A5 size magazine started as the Newsletter of the VWOC(GB). It could be argued that the 'VW Driver' magazine of today has a longer history than VWM. Paul Harris the editor of Beetling magazine, that's 40 years service. The magazine was issued to members of the VWOC(GB) and could br bought over the VW dealers counter and the independent VW traders such as Autocavan. The start seems to be January 1958 unless you know different. The picture is of the last issue (August 1982) before it became VW AUDI Car. 

Though the dates suggest there may be a load of issues, there were in fact only 22 printed, with the last two being double issues (21/22 and 23/24). Though only containing 16 pages they were crammed with information on tune-up's for the Beetle. The editor of this magazine was Neil Birkitt who later went on to VW Motoring then VW Driver magazine.

The magazine is a 'grass-roots' publication. dubSCENE. This magazine followed much the same path as TotalVW. It wasn't until the end of 2004 that most of the subscribers had been re-inbursed.

This magazine disappeared from the scene leaving many unhappy subscribers who spent a long time trying to re-coup their subscription. It all concluded but the people involved left with little credit.

The magazine was actually in print before 1998, but that was very much the learning days. The magazine probably started in 1996 and begun to grow into a magazine that format that we know of today. Initial it was a way of advertising your VW and was handed around at shows. Then in 1998 the publishers decided to formalise it by releasing a No1 issue (see picture). The magazine was then re-named so that it could be more easily recognised on the news stand to TotalVW. 

This magazine has continued to improve and now is in the same league as Volksworld. Strictly aircooled. Contains articles on the technical, VW events and 'feature' cars. Back pages are classifieds with plenty of Beetles and advertising is free. Click on the picture to visit their site.

Tries to represent the grass-roots sometimes mixes it up with being 'groovy'. An excellent read all the same. No longer in production. Last issue was October 2002. Disappeared quickly without repaying peoples subscription leaving many unhappy. Volkswagen Camper and Commercial is owned by the same people.

This was a magazine that tended towards the watercooled side of things but carried some fascinating aircooled articles with interesting facts. The series of articles covering the range of VW/Audi engines, is a must for those hunting the elusive timing marks on their 1980's cars. Model profiles etc give an insight into the model ranges. Fot the technically minded there are explanations of injection systems and the superchargers etc... The magazine continues today as VW Driver. 

The name Safer Motoring often caused difficulty for the publishers, because it would be bought by people thinking it was a driver safety magazine. Only to find when they got home it was full of VW cars. Very much the backbone of the VW scene in the 1960's it was the source of information for the enthusiast. The magazine changed it's name in 1985 to VWMotoring. (Pictured is the last VW Safer Motoring). The first editor was Robert Wyse until Jan 1982 when he passed away following a short illness. Jan/Feb issue of that year was never published. From 1982 Robin Wager held the reins and eventually became the publisher.

 In 1992 Robin Wager sold the publishing onto Warner Group. The magazine had become a glossy page magazine by the time Neil Birkitt stepped in July 1996. Neil Birkitt was the editor following the departure of Robin Wager. Neil had been the driving force behind the technical publication BUG POWER.

1998 on, has been censored at the request of David Corfield

Presently edited by some true enthusiasts of the marque with articles on both air and water cooled VW's. Contains articles on the technical, VW events and 'feature' cars. Back pages are classifieds. Advertising of spare parts is free. Sadly ceased to be in it's 45th year.

E-mail: vwm@warners.co.uk

This magazine originates from Nov 1961. Very much the founder of the VW magazine scene.

A  magazine covering the VW watercooled range. Articles are on latest models, technical insights, events & lots on the New Beetle. This was an American import that was readily available in local UK newsagents but then disappeared as fast as it had appeared.