The Dozen Most Important Cars of All Time

From 1908 to Present

Volkswagen Beetle (1938-2003)

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It is hard to imagine that the loveable VW was first designed to be the populist vehicle of the volk of Hitler's Third Reich but the tough little Bug long outlived that ancestry to become the best selling single car model of all time.

The Dozen Most Important Cars of All Time

There are automobiles of great beauty and great speed but only a few have been able to fundamentally change the way we live and dream

The 50 Worst Cars of All Time

On the 50th anniversary of the Ford Edsel, TIME and Dan Neil, Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive critic and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, look at the greatest lemons of the automotive industry