The Microbus is back, baby! Nearly 75 years since the first Volkswagen Type 2 rolled off its assembly line and into the annals of Americana as an icon of 1960s counterculture, VW is re-releasing the emblematic vehicle — this time for the 21st century hippy.
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VW executives ahead of SXSW 2022’s kickoff to , which will be available as both a people mover and a cargo van (dubbed the ID.Buzz Cargo) beginning later this year. The — arriving later this year — and will be available with a number of options lacking in their American-market cousins including short-wheelbase and commercial variants. There’s even that likely won’t be making it across the pond. The American iterations are in 2023.
The ID.Buzz is built atop VW’s modular electric drive matrix ( if you say it in German), the same battery platform for one of its European market vehicles come 2023. As such it…
