New VW camper design (not for US)

[John61CT]

Long video, narrated in German.



But if you have bandwidth and patience, well worth checking out the IMO crazy cool design, especially the bathroom, separate fridges above and below, skylights, integrated coffee maker, under the kids' bunkbeds.

Likely will go for over 100K maxed out like this example.

 

[ClassyGlobal]

I find innovation in design, space management and efficiency to be prevalent abroad. So over big, boxy and heavy in order to enjoy travel in the US. This is fueling my reason for importing a foreign used vehicle to convert. Pun intended. Thanks for the share!!!

 

[John61CT]

Watch out for the cost of complying with DOT / EPA regs

 

[vanman2300]

Nice. I particularly liked the design of the bathroom.

 

[AreWeLostYet]

Even the earliest Westfalia campers really showed how to use space efficiently. If VW made a Sprinter type camper, it would be heaven on wheels.

 

[John61CT]

That's exactly what the Crafter platform is!

 

[QinReno]

When I came back from Germany in the 1990s, I wanted to bring back my european-made Ford, which I had fallen in love with (!!) and which would go like a bat out of the blue skies when on the autobahns, but the dealer said it wouldn't pass american import requirements. Things like smog control certifications and, as I recall, they still used asbestos in the brakes over there. You need brakes twice as good as on american cars to drive the autobahns at 160 KPH. No doubt, any cars meant for import into the US are specially configured to pass US customs.

 

[John61CT]

Yes the European delivery programs make you the USian spec'd version, which you're allowed to drive there.

Which I'm surprised at now that their standards have been much more stringent than ours for a long time.