House On Wheels T2

Anastasia Trevova's leading program is studying the new simplic Volkswagen Multivan and thinking about how the furgonic evolved from a cheap hippie home to a yappi carrier.

In my hands, Volkswagen Multivan was in my hands, the manufacturer positioned it as a multifunctional car. There's more space in it than a family hatchback, a salon can serve as the most real mobile office. And finally, you can live in it, one word, not a car, but a comfortable one. home on wheels♪ Well, he could be almost like an apartment in a top set of up to four million roubles. But this car wasn't always so valuable. Initially, he was positioned as a cheap truck to transport people. Anyway, everything's on order.

Volkswagen Multivan T1. Photo:

First intervention: 1947-1967

The current Volkswagen Multivan showed up in 1947. Shortly before this Dutch dealer Ben Paul proposed the concept of a car for the carriage of small goods. Well, where's the small cargo, there's people. That's how they put the first serial T1.

It's the microbus that became a symbol of the hippie movement. He was popular for two reasons: great capacity and very low price. It is interesting that in Europe and the United States, T1 was sold before 1967, and in Brazil it was released eight years before 1975. The reason is the same, financial: Brazilians were not prepared to pay for the new generation of this car.

Second intervention: 1967-1979

Volkswagen Multivan T2. Photo:

The second generation of microbus from Volkswagen was so unthinkable. The engine with air cooling, the same chassis, is changed design and interior.

The automobile used a special popularity in municipal services: ambulances, police and firefighters became its main customers.

In Germany, this bus was released until 1979, and in Brazil, attention is still standing on the door. But the year 2013 will be the last, and there will be no modern crash test on the body of the 1967 model.

Volkswagen Multivan T3. Photo:

Third event: 1979-1990

The last of the transporters, the engine on the rear, and the first with the multivan sildic, the vehicle was slightly lowered by low-profile rubber and lithic discs. There was a warehouse table in the salon, shaded seats, footlight and quality audio systems. The second row's seats started turning at 180 degrees.

Words, a premium class that yesterday's hippies looked jealous.

Volkswagen Multivan T4. Photo:

Fourth intervention: 1990-2003

The engine in T4 moved forward, as well as the drive.

Well, the "Multivanian luxury" continued to build up her power. For example, the novel became a panoramic glacier of the salon.

So the gap between the usual Transporter and Multivan has become even deeper and broader.

In the new Volkswagen Multivan. Photo: Anastasia Tregovova

Fifth intervention: 2003 - N.A.

And now we've come back to where we started: the fifth generation of the Transporters in Multivan's performance was finally ripped from its roots into Make love not war, and now it's more like Make money.