That’s pretty rad, shame it won’t come to the US
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Uhm…
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Here in Northern Virginia - DC area a large portion of contractors drive in from far out western Virginia. They are going to want a vehicle that gets them back home after driving all day in DC-Va-Md traffic. An electric van isn’t going to be a big draw. As for the macho truck, a cutesy VW van won’t look good in rural MAGA driveways for many of those guys.
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you can’t go home again, amirite?
On the other hand, every new electric vehicle I see, makes me feel a little bit giddy inside as the future with its ‘electric cars’ continues to actually arrive. Now we just need flying cars. (Do we? Really? After we’ve seen how land-based cars have screwed with everything?)
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An F-150 Lightning, on the other hand, not only is huge and macho-angular, it’s faster than the other F150’s (including maybe the raptor? I’m not sure. you probably shouldn’t offroad jump it like you would a raptor. you’d leave a crater with how much it weighs.)
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As I have said several times before…
… THIS!!!
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Touch controls for non-essential features is ok (not great but it’ll do). But for essential read outs and controls for a vehicle i absolutely prefer physical controls. We’ve all heard of Tesla cars having some kind of software crash and people being unable to use the touch screen while driving 
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The problem with vans is that they are lower to the ground and don’t have 4-wheel drive, both of which make them much worse vehicles to drive in ice & snow.
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Oh, darling, if only! SMH
Plz vide
My then-BF took it upon himself to teach me to drive a stick with that bus.
A VW BUS.
That worked out even less well than one would expect, so my impatient AF ass threw a sissy fit and quit.
A couple years later back home in Detroit, a friend much more successfully taught me on Belle Isle with his VW…but it was a Jetta. I was shifting more smoothly than he after a lot less than 10 mins.
He was a superb, patient teacher who made me be patient w/myself, and the vehicle was obvs much more appropriate.
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As a statistician, I’m forced to comment: your statement is true only for the median, not for the arithmetic average.
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i get where you’re coming from with the shifting in an old bus, i do! i (also an unfortunately impatient tutor) did teach the kid’s mum to drive my bus. hard headed woman from Hong Kong wasn’t gonna take my shit!
that shifter - sticking out of the floor, push down and over to engage reverse - was a thing of beauty and a badge to proudly show in practice. down shifting on inclines due to woefully underpowered drive… starting from a full stop on a steep city street in downtown Seattle. finesse, baby. finesse!
gawd i loved that bus!
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May I ask why you got rid of it? Probably eventually became too unreliable to deal with and you needed something more practical, right?
My family had a VW bus when I was growing up. I do have some fond memories of trips that we took in it, but also of plenty of times that we got stranded, or had major difficulties making it up mountain roads. Old cars may be easier to repair than new ones but man, they really need a lot more work to keep running.
I still own my first car, a 1960 Ford Falcon. I drove it daily in High School and College, although I rarely drive it these days. When I do I often get comments from older folks along the lines of “I had one of those and loved it! Wish I’d never sold it!” But of course it’s easy to forget exactly why you sold your old car once it’s no longer around to cause you headaches and leave you stranded somewhere.
That’s the way nostalgia works, I guess. I certainly don’t obsess over my Ford but I know full well that if I do sell that car it won’t take very long before I’m one if those same forgetful people full of regret, so instead it takes up space in the garage.
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