Volkswagen Beetle Rallying | Pure engine sound! 

I’ve never seen bugs so agile, and sound so good!

Super Beetles handle awesome. I have had my 71 since 1989. These drivers are really good.

Rear wheel drive, engine in the back between the wheels - sounds like a natural rally car to me.

That was very exciting and endearing, all at the same time. The Little Beetle That Could... Lest we forget that 5 Volkswagen Beetle 1200's were entered into the 1954 Carrera Panamericana race of over 3000 kilometers and ALL 5 finished the race.

Love the sound of these bugs, especially the red one! It sounds so angry!

Good old Beetles, still young at heart! Great stuff.

The car of my young years ! Very efficient in all terrain

The spirit of Herbie lives 👍👍👍👍👍

that is nuts, those things understeer and then out of nowhere hit you in the face with massive oversteer... Huge respect to these guys... BIG BALLS!

I miss my VW race cars. Well, I still have the last two. Haven't seen the light of day since 1987. They were for oval track racing in Michigan, USA. Also ran some special events in Canada, and Ohio. The older car was built from a '72 Karman Ghia, the last was built from the ground up, a full tube chassis. Mix of Mustang II, and hand - made front suspension, rack and pinion steering, 4wheel disc brakes, coil overs all around, 1835 CCs, twin Weber 44 IDF carbs, heads ported so big it needed custom modified intakes, open Stinger exhaust, only 1688 pounds, the minimum weight required for that engine size. With the weight in the back, set up was a little challenge, but it took off like a rocket with no wheel spin, 10" wide by 13" tires and wheels. That last one was awesome until bad gas wrecked the engine. I want to get a couple of stock engines, just so they move again for antique race car shows.

I love it. Reminds me of my 1300 Beetle. The piston had enlarged combustion chamber, 10° negative wheel adjustment in the rear axle and sport shock absorbers. The Beetle was incredibly stable in corners and in crosswinds, great straight-line stability and the speedometer went way beyond the scale. Perfectly precise to drive.

I love these VW's, the success they've made will be remembered for the whole world.

I've had Bugs, and Super Beetles since the 90's. This is the 1st time I've ever seen true Rally Super Beetles! I always thought it was possible. Thanks for posting this! You've got my sub!

*I live in Brazil and own a copy of this type of VW, I have a lot of affection for it and this vehicle has never let me down, even on roads like this as in the video.*

All up to 1600cc FIA Spec, weber dual carburator allowed. Running from 80hp to 125hp max.

Listening to these VWs reminds me of my '73 Standard Beetle with 1914 and dual Weber IDFs. That little guy would move right out and sounded great doing it!

The mini tank that can do anything regardless of being old, and outdated in technology, it can kick ass! Never underestimate a beetle!

..being 55 yrs old, i grew up seeing endless numbers of these cute lil Bugs! ..too bad i live in southern Wisc .. salt city in winter. This is a fabulous video showing how ppl can tune a sedate grocery getter into a Rally car! Beest beetles! 💝

I had a 65 beetle in germany. I loved it!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the first ever Porsche

These are so difficult to handle - the skill set of these drivers are mesmerizing. Looks so simple and clean

Combine tech from 1930s. and the best boxer engine of all times an you get the definitive machine for all scenerys. the mighty Beetle

There was a VW Bug engine specialist in my home town in the 70s and 80s. I heard a lot of Bugs with no exhaust to speak of, lol

In the late early 60s, early 70s I had a ‘68 Beetle, stock except for rear camber compensator and a micro bus clutch. Belonged to local SCCA chapter and ran the Beetle in auto crosses, ice trials, and one or to half-assed local rallies. Drifting was huge fun on snow and ice and dirt. Mine didn’t sound like these machines nor go near as fast, but it was ever such fun.

Beautiful sound! I had a 1302 with 80 hp... was proud of it.

Looks like so much fun!

Amazingly spectacular

Those dual downdrafts just sounds SO INCREDIBLE!

Fun stuff there. I love the sound of these things. Had many hot VWs in my youth.

I have 1982 beetle and this car makes me feel happy.

stock they are already very good offroad, thin wheels actually dig into the mud and pull it, rear drive and a simple reliable engine that will not stop working even if half the pistons are not working, a beast of a car to the point people still want them today unlike other cars wich get obsolete and degrade due to lack of parts, you can maintain one yourself easy to learn and reliable, one of the first cars i drove and one of the best, also they are known to get through places where bigger cars like pickups get stuck and can`t pull out.

I’ve never seen a VW run like those ! Wow the little bug can rock !

I am crying with joy watching this!

The sound is epic :)

Super wie ihr fehrt 👍👍👍👍

Simply awesome

Probably the best car ever made. I had two.

Love it!! Love it!! Truly this is a great video. Yes!!?? Sweden, Rally Racing in the SNOW! .

INTERESSANTE 🧐 Show👍 Já tive um Fusca branco 1.300l, ano 1981. 🇧🇷

They sold more of these then a model T for a reason, this car can me made into anything, drag car, rally car, rock crawler, low rider, millions of people have done millions of things with them and the beetle found a way, that's why it's special

So sick!!!

Awesome!

Love it, that sound is amazing! Prost 🍻

Wow VW ripping the race track, what joy to see! The Bug King of all cars!👁🕵💥🤛✌

Que fabuloso como suenan esos motores !!! Saludos desde CHILE al mundo !

Thanks for sharing. Just browsing through the comments. These are not Subaru or even Porsche engines. Each engine has a distinct sound. These are how VW type 1 air cooled engines with twin down draft carburetors sound when spec’d. They are built for rallying where torque and reliability matters. In fact if you listen and watch closely the yellow bug revs slightly higher. If you search RU-vid you’ll find modded air cooled normally aspirated VW engines that rev higher and sound even better but they are used in short burst drag racing. Back to this rally version. These are super beetles with McPhersons up front and trailing arm suspensions (no swing axles) in the rear that deliver much better handling. Handling even improves when shifting more weight like moving the battery up front and swapping rear fenders and trunk lid to fiberglass. Limited slip differentials keep wheel spin in check on the turns. I have to believe they probably converted the brakes to discs all around to handle the extra power from stock. Anyway love these cars. I only wish I could afford to build one. They can get pretty expensive.

Yes!! I have had my share of VW air cooled vehicles. I had been a VW tech and engine re builder for some time. Fond memories, I built a "Baja Bug" that had a Typ III engine with fuel injection and giant L75 15" tires on the rear, changed the final gearing so high that you could use 2nd gear up to 50 mph. Fun times

Excelente video, autos preciosos, muy buena carrera, felicitaciones!!!!!

What a beast!

Just amazing! ^^

Dear rally community! Is it more important to have rally cars with a million hp or a route set up for standard cars making for spectacular driving? In my opinion it´s more entertaining to watch a standard car performing it utmost, than watching a supercar fly by in a fraction of a second.

I had 2 Volkswagen Beetle/Käfer too. Great cars! Greetings from Linz-Austria🇦🇹🏔⛷🛶🍺🥨😸👍💙🇦🇹🐺Europe!

WOW ! Das macht Spaß !!!

Ever since I found this video I cannot help but come back to it it gets more exciting each time great job on the camera man for the racing shots amazing video especially now that my mom just passed away at 52 years old and tomorrow is her funeral we use to go to car shows all over south east Michigan and middle of Michigan every summer a shelf full of trophies and memories and adventures and stories currently I live with my dad and I'm trying to stage a come back to car shows and other events here in Michigan and hopefully I will start up a RU-vid channel of my own someday soon in my garage if I can get the equipment to do so and repairs on the garage here so I can all year round thank you for your time bye for now my mom's Jessie pincombe I'm joey pincombe aka bettle boy

Old but gold

Autos hermosos y funcionales los amo en verdad que son muy buenos autos este vídeo lo demuestra saludos desde México.

Looks like I was right about old-fashioned VW beetles like that. They really can race!

Pure beauty

Gracias buenísimo , suenan como motores de alta.

For a second I thought one of the Volkswagen bug race cars hit the trees but then it reappeared again that was intense ride on racers

Cool!

This is the funniest but also Coolest thing I’ve seen. Then the sound and high revs. Lol. CoMpletely unnatural to hear and see this but oh soo cool 😎

This is what my 72 beetle wants to be when it grows up!

Who would have thought that Swedes are even more death daring than Finns?! 😅 (Guess what - Finnish VW rallying brought me here 😉) Goes on to show that the 1303 really _was_ the climax of beetle evolution (combined with an excellent driver talent of course). I'll HAVE to watch that in person one day!

Miss ya PO! Sean from Lindab back in Portsmouth VA. Been a minute. Lol😂

Nice one…👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Cannot quite get my head around this....never heard Herbie rev so free, an aural treat from that high revving beetle flat4🔥🔥🔥

My best friend, that's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.

I love it VW ❤❤❤❤

Good steering work.

I've found myself wanting a souped up beetle in the last few weeks. A rally style car or a Baja style car. Either one would be great!

I like the body roll...these cars were built to race

I like to think that my ‘73 Super sounds like that when I’m running through the gears. Probably not, but I like to think.

VERY COOL TO SEE. VW BUGS HOPPED UP AND DOING THIS !!!

really good camera work........nice job !

Gotta be cracking some cases with those revs.

And my dad doesn't understand why I like Bugs. Awesome versatile little cars.

the cars are so cute ♥️

Nice car,,nice engine

Just bought one of these a couple weeks ago a 69. I wish it sounded like these cars do lol

Kraft durch Freude

Super auti. Di moze "buba" niti jedno auto nemoze proc. Legemdarno auto. Pozdrav iz Splita. Srđan.🇭🇷🇭🇷👍🥰🥰👍

Who says the VW Beetle wasn't fast. Maybe so unmodified. But, these show what can be done to the lovely cars to make them really GOOOOOO!!!!! 😁😁😁😁👍😉

LETS GO HERBIE !

Driving in snow looks a lot of fun . Those of you lucky enough to street drive in snow season are living the dream . Leave the wife home and say I’m going to the supermarket dear, wow the perfect crime.

Wicked!

These need to still be made .

That actually looks like a great time. Not as stressful.

Breathtaking..Love how many of these Bugbombs have working wind shield wipers and brake lights!

Brabo demais, tu é doido kkkkkkkk

Suggestivo 💪👍💪👏👏👏

Cool cool

Makes sense to me there great cars and they are bolted together so it's probably a good idea

Best. Car. Ever.

Alot of super beetles in this video.

El vocho. Un fuera de serie 👍🐞 el auto del siglo

Old Beetles don’t die they just rallying.

The best car that they ever made.

I'm convinced those differentials have been welded together.

Hermoso coche de carela ❤😊🙂😀😀😃😄❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍🩷💝💖💗💓