Used VW Caravelle Microbus Spares For Sale

In the first two decades of the 21st century, the German Volkswagen group successively presented several concept vehicles for a minibus or maxi van under different names that deliberately incorporated the concepts and style elements of the first VW buses T1 / T2, which were known as VW Bulli and icons of hippie culture had become known when retroelements were picked up and mostly alluded to the model from the post-war period.

In January 2001 the drivable VW Microbus was presented for the first time at the NAIAS in Detroit. The Microbus was to be positioned as a series model between the Sharan and the T5 as a more emotional MPV and was developed very far, but the planned series production was not realized.

The very similar follow-up study VW Bulli was shown for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show 2011. Series production as the VW New Bulli, similar to the New Beetle, was planned for 2015 alongside the T6 but was also discarded.

After the VW emissions scandal, VW finally presented a further development of the concept as VW Budd-E, which relies exclusively on electric motors, not first at an automobile fair, but at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. The name alludes in English buddy ‘mate’ and with the separated E on the pure electric drive.

Since 2017, VW’s underlying platform with the modular e-drive kit (MEB) for purely electrically powered vehicles has been called “ID” and the Bulli legacy Buzz or VW ID based on it. The start of sales is scheduled for 2022 this time. The name from the English verb to buzz ‘hum’ should allude to the electric drive and bus at the same time.

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