We went to the original site of the Woodstock festival in VW’s new hippie bus. We learned a bit in the process.

At first, the Bus was powered by the same engine as the Beetle — a 1100 Volkswagen ... to designate characters as of the Hippie Type (think Disney's “Cars”). Today, VW Buses are rare ...

From its first test run in 1938 Nazi Germany, the Volkswagen Beetle rose to become a worldwide pop culture icon. Adolf Hitler conceived it as a "people's car," which could be mass-produced and ...