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Old 2/28/11 | 05:53 PM
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Old 2/28/11 | 06:13 PM
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Does that mean a return of hippies too?
Old 2/28/11 | 06:19 PM
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Maybe it's just me, but it looks too small to be a new Bus. No 3rd row of seats?
Old 3/1/11 | 12:03 AM
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That's what I was thinking too. Not enough seats.
Old 3/1/11 | 07:36 AM
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I love it! Not every vehicle needs 3 rows/7-6 passenger seating.
Old 3/1/11 | 08:43 AM
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Does that mean a return of hippies too?
Freaking hipsters are the new hippes. Don't you know? Plaid wearing, beard growing posers. Crack open your Pabst Blue ribbon because I smell a hipster fest. No seriously, it smells of dreadlocks.


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Maybe it's just me, but it looks too small to be a new Bus. No 3rd row of seats?
See Jalopnik's article on the B-Max van. How small can it be before it isn't a van anymore? Who knows, we can pretty much name a car whatever we want these days. If you really wanted to you could probably call a manual transmission a hybrid if you felt it was possible. Give it some time and manuals will be considered a human/gas hybrid, since you do all the shifting work and the engine just runs the car. Trust me, there is a lawyer for everything.


Hippies and Hipsters aside, I'll take one, or two! Give me one just to goof around in and act like a hipster acts like an all knowing part of the current young generation, and give me another with the 250Hp AWD 5 cylinder with a 6 speed manual! Woo hoo, get outta my way hippies!


Did I mention my angst for hipsters?
Old 3/1/11 | 05:15 PM
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I dunno, I just feel if they're gonna stick with the Bus name they should stick with the original formula ...
Old 3/1/11 | 06:52 PM
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Two rows of seats is not a bus no matter what you name it. New "bus" = new euroflop.
Old 3/1/11 | 07:06 PM
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Here are the real pics ... center stack is an iPad ...

http://www.electronista.com/articles...edia.features/
Old 3/1/11 | 07:33 PM
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That's not a bus.
No room in the back for a mattress.
Old 3/1/11 | 07:39 PM
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Where's all the windows?
Old 3/2/11 | 02:02 AM
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This thing doesn't seem to do the original bus much justice. Oh and it needs round headlights...
Old 3/2/11 | 05:48 AM
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damnit I thought hippies were extinct!
Old 3/3/11 | 12:16 PM
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I liked the last Microbus Concept they did much better. it captured the essence of the original much better.

Old 3/6/11 | 10:47 AM
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I don't like it, but i'm also a fan of the 60's Bus.
Old 3/6/11 | 03:05 PM
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They should have used the expression "In keeping with the spirit" before drawing.
Old 3/13/11 | 10:22 PM
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Microbus should be a more adequate name. It looks kinda cool.
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