You will not have to attend for much longer to see an honest-to-goodness manufacturing model of Volkswagen’s ID.Buzz minivan. VW Group chief Herbert Diess has announced that his firm will debut the reincarnated microbus on March ninth. He did not share extra past a sketch, however VW’s testing of a self-driving prototype suggests the completed van will not lose lots of the design cues from the nostalgia-inspired idea.

The ID.Buzz is predicted to launch in Europe later in 2022, and attain American shores in 2023. You’ll need to ‘settle’ for the passenger-focused long-wheelbase mannequin within the US the place Europeans will get short-wheelbase and business fashions. Europe can be extra more likely to get a self-driving variant, too. Entry fashions may begin with rear wheel drive fashions that provide as much as 200HP, whereas the range-topper may embrace AWD and 300HP. You might even see as much as three battery capacities.

The Buzz won’t be as mass market-friendly because the ID.4 and different extra standard fashions, however it may nonetheless be one among VW’s most vital EVs. Like the Beetle, VW’s microbus design stays iconic. The Buzz may function a halo car whose cachet attracts consumers to the model’s general EV lineup, even when they finally accept one other mannequin.