When I caught up with it, the Green Tortoise was parked on North Halsted Street, its passengers dispersed between the Shamrock, a cheerfully noisy Irish bar, and the Blues, a funky jazz club. It ...

With a name like the "hippie bus," you might expect a vintage experience, but this travel company offers an affordable, ...

The last Volkswagen "hippie bus" is due to roll off an an assembly line in Brazil on Dec. 31. It seems the van that became known as the transportation of choice for counter-culture folks in the ...

First introduced in 1950, the bus became strongly associated with the counterculture movement of the 60s and touring bands such as the Grateful Dead, but it hasn’t kept up with changing times.

It’s been more than 20 years since Volkswagen first promised a reincarnation of the “OG” #vanlife vehicle – that iconic flower-power VW hippie bus. Now, the new, all-electric North ...

The iconic hippie road trip vehicle could get a lot more hippie-friendly with this sustainable, modern makeover. When the classic VW bus was at the height of its popularity in the ’60s, ads ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The hippie van has gone high-tech. Volkswagen’s Silicon Valley research lab has used the iconic symbol of the ’60s as a platform to display new technologies ...

In America, it became associated with the Hippie movement, but the Bus also provided transportation for large families long before the front-wheel-drive minivan was invented by Chrysler in the 1980s.