2012 Volkswagen Microbus

Klaus Bischoff, head of design at Volkswagen, said the study is the heir of the legendary El Bulli. In an interview at the Auto Express “in Los Angeles during the show, the designer added that it is a” personal mission “because it will not abandon the Design Center of Volkswagen not before he had the Microbus of the third millennium . Bischoff clarified that it will be the production version of the Volkswagen Microbus Concept 2001, whose project was rejected in 2005 due to high production costs.

The vehicle will be designed by the Volkswagen Design Center California, partly because the U.S. market will replace the Routan minivan, which had not received the desired success. However, the Volkswagen Microbus T1 resume forms, since it will be marketed in Europe, while production should be entrusted to the system of U.S. Chatanooga. Klaus Bischoff concluded the interview by stating that the concept of the new Guys will be on display during 2012. The production, however, should start in 2015. They are also not excluded even in hybrid and electric version.