Volkswagen Bus
(1950 - 2005)
Brand:
Volkswagen (also known as VW)
Country:
Germany
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Car articles about Volkswagen Bus by year
At some point, everyone has had an encounter with the Volkswagen Bus. Years later, this often awakens the desire to become the owner of the Wolfsburg all-rounder. But which classic VW Bus suits me? A self-experiment with the first three model series reveals the answer.
Motorhomes have always been, and still are, compromises on wheels. The two core aspects, the "camper" and the "motorhome", are naturally difficult to combine. Of course, this also applies to this Westfalia camper, which is based on a VW T1 bus. There is not much space to live in, but at least that little bit is always on board. The VW technology does its job reliably, but you can hardly reach high speeds. The pros and cons of the "Dormobil" are particularly closely linked. This article reproduces an original driving report from 1962 and shows the motorhome in historical photos.
If the Volkswagen people in 1947 had suspected what a hit their Dutch importer Ben Pon was proposing to build, they would probably have hurried a little more with the development of the VW Transporter. But it was already on sale in 1950 and became a successful model, without which even the German economic miracle might have looked different. And by the end of the 1960s at the latest, the VW Type 2 T1 had become a cult model, which today is the only commercial vehicle that regularly makes it to the biggest classic car auctions. This driving report tells the story of the first "Bulli" and shows it in many pictures.
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