Automobile Enthusiasts
Related: About this forumYou all remember the old VW microbus...
Smoke a bowl, listen to some Stones, get laid...
Well, there's a new bus in town, and it's all electric. Elon Musk, eat your heart out:
VW sez its official-- will be a 2022 model.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,258 posts)One cool thing. it was pretty easy to disconnect the engine and push the bus away to work on the engine...
dweller
(24,941 posts)got a 77 Westaphalia camper that i'm holding on to for retirement or
possible home in the after apocalypse days ..
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Mopar151
(10,173 posts)Have their own cult following! High level of function, with a very "clean" design. Borrowed my friend's a couple times to camp at the races - went to work on Monday with it, before cleaning it out and returning it.
My derelict co-workers drank up the contents of the icebox at lunchtime "overtime" (all afternoon), and they were profoundly sad when I returned it.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)captain queeg
(11,780 posts)I remember going on a trip with a friend. Broke the throttle cable at night in Twisp WA and he jammed the throttle so we could putt along about 20 mph all the way back to Bellingham. Arrived the next morning in VW bus.
Glamrock
(11,994 posts)But I aint giving up me Mini for one!
jpak
(41,780 posts)So y'all Are deprived
3Hotdogs
(13,363 posts)samnsara
(18,281 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,300 posts)It's inability to protect front seat passengers in a head on collision was one of the reasons for the original type 2's end of production here. I'm not sure how this is addressed in this new model, but it certainly has all the styling cues of a microbus.
Also appears to have solar panels in the roof under the surf boards.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)sell it here or Europe if it didn't.