As aged hippies often argue, the sixties didn’t end on December 31st 1969 ✌️
As aged hippies often argue, the sixties didn't end on December 31st 1969. We've been both enduring and enjoying the decade's cultural legacy ever since through films, music and the cyclic fashionability of flared trousers. Now there's an automotive throwback that defies the sort of cynicism normally triggered by such deliberate retro marketing, the Volkswagen ID.Buzz.
As a drive down the A303 on a summer Saturday will prove, Volkswagen has made many generations of people-vans. But the company says that the ID.Buzz's inspiration is drawn largely from the T1 and T2 microbus and their panel van sisters. Despite the prototype's psychedelic wrap the inspiration is obvious in terms of stance and proportions.
One other obvious issue with assessing the Buzz's place in the legacy of VW Campers, Caravelles and Transporters comes with the fact I won't actually be driving the bus version; beneath the rainbow colours the prototype I've been assigned is the commercial panel van, with a bulkhead behind the front seats to separate cockpit from cargo space and barn-split doors at the back instead of the bus's top hinged tailgate.
While massively quicker than any factory-produced T1, T2 or T3 camper, the commercial ID.Buzz isn't especially rapid by EV standards. Given the lack of an official 0-60mph time I try to guesstimate one through a couple of foot-planted launches and reckon on around nine seconds.
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