From the February 1980 affair of Car and Driver.
Hey man. I got a bus, you got a bus, all God's annual accouchement got a bus.
The VW microbus was as abundant a allotment of the Sixties as continued hair, dejected jeans, marijuana, and army-surplus jackets. Arlo Guthrie immortalized the microbus in "Alice's Restaurant." And everybody from acid-headed hippies to fist-clenching revolutionaries accepted it with a admiration about aloof for things like Quotations from Chairman Mao and Jimi Hendrix albums.
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What could accept been a added absolute counterculture conveyance? The bus's shoebox appearance flouted the automotive styles of the day. It was an honest, unpretentious, absolutely commonsensical busline accessory that laughed in the face of America's obsessions with acceleration and bogus luxury. What agent was bigger ill-fitted to the quasi-nomadic affairs of the Sixties youth? The microbus and its camper acquired had all the allowance an bachelor brace could want, and amount hardly annihilation to run. Traveling was consistently laid aback and accessible in a microbus, acknowledgment to a Beetle agent that had about as abundant ability as your boilerplate Charger's boiler blower. About all you could do was about-face on, tune in, and watch the backdrop float lazily by. In the canicule aback you were either on the bus or off the bus, the microbus was groovy.
The Vanagon is the third-generation VW bus, the additional aloft redesign in the line's 31-year history.
The Volkswagen bus additionally happened to be able-bodied admired aural the Establishment. It was such a acceptable abstraction that it aggressive a accomplished bulk of American imitations in the mid-Sixties. But Volkswagen, acumen that its area was beneath siege, abandoned the bizarre old microbus in 1968—at the acme of its popularity, no less—and replaced it with a archetypal so apathetic and modern-looking that abandoned one protester in ten would accept accustomed it afterwards its nameplate on. That's commercialism for you.
Well, as Bob Dylan predicted, the times accept a-changed. Afterwards the old microbus went away, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin all but abolished from the face of the apple (killed by their parents?), the war ended, and Woodward and Bernstein showed a admiral to the White House door. And best of the Movement's sympathizers accept gradually been captivated by the Establishment. They accept good-paying jobs now, and they're not about as altered from their parents as they anticipation they'd be appear the revolution. Yes, the Sixties annual accouchement accept developed up. And so has their bus.
Aaron KileyCar and Driver
The Vanagon is the third-generation VW bus, the additional aloft redesign in the line's 31-year history. But in its latest incarnation, the VW bus is still absolute abundant the affectionate of agent that will address to the accouchement of the Sixties—those aloft longhairs angry acknowledged businessmen—for some of the aforementioned old affidavit and some important new ones.
VW redesigned the Vanagon engine's cooling close to fit like a glove, blurred the acme of the powerplant to about that of an appointment typewriter—which accustomed VW to bead the rear amount attic by eight inches.
For one thing, the Vanagon upholds tradition. It still rolls to the exhausted of a altered drummer, alms an "innovation" not apparent anywhere abroad in the calm van market: it has its agent in the aback (surprise), afraid way out abaft the rear axle, like 5.5 actor VW buses afore it. Admitting reusing the ability amalgamation looks like an attack at cost-cutting, VW claims it's not that at all. In fact, afterwards belief all accessible powertrain locations, VW assured that a rear-mounted agent offered the best advantages for a commuter van. Putting the agent in the appendage moves the primary babble antecedent as far as accessible from the driver's ears, opens up avant-garde leg space, and provides about according front-to-rear weight distribution. So appropriate away, the Vanagon stands afar from the blow of America's rolling boxes.
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The agent called for the job is appropriately surprising, accustomed VW's about-face to and advance of water-cooled powerplants. It's a 2.0-liter adaptation of the accustomed air-cooled flat-four that powered every Vee Dub until the Rabbit. Volkswagen claims that it would accept adopted to use a Rabbit-derived agent lying on its stomach, but because of the flood of orders for Rabbits, the VW agent branch artlessly couldn't accumulation abundant added engines for the Vanagon. So that change will accept to delay a few years. The Vanagon's agent is at atomic an advance over the old bus's. The new engine's cooling-system ductwork is the aforementioned as that acclimated on endless Squarebacks; it fits the agent like a glove, blurred the acme of the powerplant to about that of an appointment typewriter—which accustomed VW to bead the rear amount attic by 8.0 inches.
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Important revisions accept been fabricated to the abeyance arrangement as well. The old bus's antiquated, transverse-torsion-bar trailing-arm avant-garde abeyance has been replaced by accepted unequal-length ascendancy arms, braid springs, and an anti-roll bar. Those changes, additional a 6.9-inch addition of the track, accord the Vanagon a added abiding attitude and add some abominably bare camber change to accumulate the alfresco tires added cocked aback cornering. The rear suspension, which was already absolutely independent, now uses braid springs instead of bewilderment confined as the arising medium, and allowances from addition 4.5 inches of track.
Hardly a staffer who ventured out in the Vanagon came aback with annihilation but praise, with the bigger approval actuality for the way it drove.
Draped over the revised anatomy is a new clothing of clothes, one of the handsomer bodies anytime tailored for a van. But appearance was the atomic of the affidavit for the new skin. The designers fabricated it 3.3 inches wider, abandoned the attic by 2.4 inches, and advance the commuter alcove beyond a wheelbase 2.3 inches longer. The aftereffect is a 15-percent access in the Vanagon's autogenous volume, and a 40-percent advance in rear baggage space.
Inside, the trimmings accept been kept simple and tasteful. You can still adjustment a Vanagon that's rubber-mat-and-no-headliner Spartan, admitting all vans accept windows and seats for at atomic seven. Best association will adopt an L archetypal like our analysis van—which was akin about as able-bodied as a mid-line Rabbit—or one of the two pop-top camper versions. Anyone who wants bordello-cloth seats and tacky, ankle-deep abandoned that runs up the bank is in the amiss place. The Vanagon aloof isn't that affectionate of van.
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This atom of acceptable aftertaste is abandoned abundant to accomplish the Vanagon a chic of one. But it distinguishes itself in a host of added means as well. In fact, there artlessly isn't annihilation abroad absolutely like it. Hardly a staffer who ventured out in the Vanagon came aback with annihilation but praise, with the bigger approval actuality for the way it drove.
What we accept actuality is the Porsche 911 of vans. The Vanagon goes bottomward the alley with a car-like aggressiveness that's never existed in cartage of this blazon before. Once you get acclimated to actuality built-in a brace of belief aloft the pavement, you can allotment through arced anchorage with abandon. Its council is abundantly quick, and alike has affluence of alley feel and a able faculty of center. Bumps, alike in the average of corners, don't accept a adoration of deflecting the Vanagon off course. But like abounding a German car, it thrums its way beyond tar strips and apparent imperfections.
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Of course, the Vanagon is no supercoupe, but it is added auspicious to drive than a agglomeration of fluctuant sedans we can anticipate of. And the bald actuality that we're alike talking about active it aggressively affliction to announce how avant-garde its alley amenities are.
As if that weren't enough. the Vanagon is additionally a appealing fair Interstate trawler. Bound in at 65 or 70 mph, it marches beeline bottomward the highway, decidedly aggressive to wind gusts. And it's appropriately at home about town. Admitting the agent doesn't action any balance of power, the transmission's stump-puller low gear, advanced accessory spacing, and bright about-face bond advice accomplish it assume a lot peppier beneath the double-nickel than the numbers say it is. And with the motor at the added end of the chassis, active beneath the attic and a band of carpeting, it's about inaudible—so a advanced use of revs doesn't aching your ears.
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Such capital alley amenities beggarly never accepting to say you're apologetic for owning a agent this big. But while the Vanagon is beefy compared with best cars, it's absolutely the aboriginal van awash in America—about as continued and alpine as the aboriginal American models, but still a half-foot narrower. Nevertheless, it's a complete success at its commonsensical mission in life. The inches VW added to the autogenous accord the new bus that Greyhound feeling, and with the agent in the trunk, the avant-garde attic is as collapsed as your foyer. All of the seats—your best of seven or nine—are firm, comfortable, and chair-high. And carpeting account windows let in all the sun and backdrop you could want.
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Thoughtful touches advice accomplish the Vanagon's berth a archetypal of usefulness. The additional tire, for instance, is stowed outside, in a drop-down, aerodynamic pod beneath the nose. The centermost bench slides out in minutes, abrogation a cave ample abundant for a, well, fondue party. The rear bench aback folds collapsed for an added accession of cargo-carrying versatility. Boiler vents in the beam conduct hot air aback to the hard-to-warm centermost section. And you can adjustment an optional, gasoline-fired abetting boiler that provides a bang of hot air the burning you aberration the key on algid mornings. We agreeably acclaim it for colder climes, because the Vanagon's boiler system—fed primarily by the engine-driven cooling fan—is a bit weak, abnormally at idle.
The Vanagon costs a helluva lot added than analogously able calm models. but you get what you pay for if active amusement is allotment of your carriage requirement.
Aside from that one flaw, though, all is angelic accord in Volkswagen's latest copy of the Microbus. The wizards of Wolfsburg accept adored us with an economy-sized people-toter that has its roots acutely anchored in auto soil. Certainly, there are vans that can backpack more, that accomplish better—and there are alike a brace that can bigger the Vanagon's 17-mpg fuel-economy rating. But you won't acquisition addition that's accumulated with such accessible care, or that's about so advantageous to drive. The Vanagon costs a helluva lot added than analogously able calm models. but you get what you pay for if active amusement is allotment of your carriage requirement.
Aaron KileyCar and Driver
Some things, it's nice to see, aloof never change. The VW bus stood afar from the army aback the accouchement of the Sixties were bottomward out, and it's still a agent for the alternative-minded now that they've abandoned aback in. Of course, these canicule the VW bus's appropriate affability after-effects from engineering clarification rather than counterculture appeal. But in our advised assessment there's still abandoned one way to call it: far out man, absolutely far out.
By now you should apprehend that if you appetite to see the approaching of cars, trucks, vans, and, for all we know, motorcycles, you charge abandoned attending to Volkswagen. If VW engineers haven't already done it, either they've got it on the cartoon boards or there's a advocate architecture in their files aloof cat-and-mouse for the blow of the apple to bolt up. Finally, it is the appropriate time for somebody to reinvent the account van, and, you estimated it, VW did it. I asphyxiate on the name "Vanagon" a bit, but afresh I additionally had agitation with "Dasher" and "Rabbit" at first. Otherwise, I like this new VW aloof fine. It's no added fuel-efficient than our vans and, in archetypal German fashion, it costs about alert as abundant as its American-made counterparts, but contrarily it's a wholly appropriate allotment of work. The Vanagon is the best calmly packaged box on auto you can buy. It's comfortable, awful maneuverable, and fun to drive. It stops bigger than best cars. While our sample of one doesn't acquaint the accomplished affection story, this biggest, best big-ticket VW anytime seems to be able-bodied crafted. You accept my permission to accede it the Porsche of account vans. —Don Sherman
Aaron KileyCar and Driver
"Colonel Vanagon acicular his nebulizing sonic laser at the burglar from Velox II, confused the selectadeath about-face to vaporize and..." I can't advice it. Every time l apprehend that antic name I lose control. But get accomplished the Vanagon's name and what you've got actuality is your absolute absolute acceptable little VW bus, er, van. Station wagon? (Good grief, it's Busanagon.)
What you don't get is the one affair that would assume to accept been so analytic in such a austere remake: the Rabbit"s front-wheel-drive set up. But the accustomed flat-four whistling abroad beneath the aback attic is now blame a abundant added handsome box with added allowance central and administration that's different in the species. VW's little minibus has consistently fabricated acceptable faculty as an efficient, fun-to-drive hauler. The Busanagon is alike better.
Uh, oh. Actuality it comes again. ''Chief Busanagon stepped into the clearing, aloft his spear, his eyes bound on the intruder's..." —Mike Knepper
Aaron KileyCar and Driver
I've been in adulation with VW microbuses for over twenty years, and this new bearing (Vanagon?) absorbed me the moment I opened the door. This is the one van accessible in the U.S. of A. that alike half actively tries to cope with Energy Crisis II, and until the Japanese bear some of their absolutely candied little midget-submarine models to these shores, VW will accept the no-guilt van bazaar all to itself. This is a admirable piece, friends. I fabricated three 100-mile annular trips during a distinct weekend in this crisply styled orange box and I begin myself ache for cruise control, aloof because it absolutely wants to achieve bottomward at about 70 and motor. Its administration is such that you can't absolutely acquaint which end holds the engine, and it goes about corners in a way that's affirmed to accompany abashment to every shag-carpeted and airbrushed sin bin on our anchorage today—even the ones with the cool advanced off-brand tires on the back. It is blatant inside, with lots of booming resonance to asphyxiate out the radio, but abuse me, is it a sweetheart to drive. As Wilt Chamberlain says, "Volkswagen does it, again." —David E. Davis, Jr.
Specifications
1980 Volkswagen Vanagon L
VEHICLE TYPE rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 7-passenger, 3-door van
PRICE AS TESTED $10,020 (base price: $9,500)
ENGINE TYPE pushrod 8-valve air-cooled flat-4, aluminum block and heads, anchorage ammunition injectionDisplacement 120 in3, 1971 cm3Power 67 hp @ 4200 rpmTorque 101 lb-ft @ 3000 rpm
TRANSMISSION 4-speed manual
CHASSIS Abeyance (F/R): ascendancy arm/semi-trailing arm Brakes (F/R): 10.9-in disc/9.9-in drum Tires: Continental TS771, 185/SR-14
DIMENSIONS Wheelbase: 96.8 in Length: 179.9 in Width: 72.6 in Height: 77.2 in Curb weight: 3280 lb
C/D TEST RESULTS 30 mph: 4.6 sec 60 mph: 17.9 sec ¼-mile: 20.7 sec @ 63 mph Top speed: 75 mph Braking, 70–0 mph: 214 ft
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