You all remember the old VW microbus...

[TreasonousBastard]

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]

1. My buddy had one. We were amateur mechanics back then.

One cool thing. it was pretty easy to disconnect the engine and push the bus away to work on the engine...

[dweller]

2. link!? ya TreasonousBastard!

got a 77 Westaphalia camper that i'm holding on to for retirement or
possible home in the after apocalypse days ..

✌🏼

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Oops!

https://gearjunkie.com/vw-bus-concept-id-buzz

[Mopar151]

11. Westies!

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]

3. Will it have a heater?

[TreasonousBastard]

6. It better! Froze our asses off in one doing Christmas carols one year.

[captain queeg]

4. Good times

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]

7. Pretty badass!

But I ain’t giving up me Mini for one!

[jpak]

8. I had secs in those old vw busses

So y'all Are deprived

[3Hotdogs]

9. 'taint nuthin. I saw action in a Ghia.

[jpak]

10. Ha me 3

[samnsara]

12. I still have my 69 Ghia..auto-stick shift Lotus white..on blocks (i wish) in the garage

[JohnnyRingo]

13. The new bus appears to have no crumple zone up front.

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]

14. Watch the video-- plenty of room in front of front seats for crumpling. They couldn't...

sell it here or Europe if it didn't.