![]() ![]() Up front, you’ll find a pair of individual seats mounted relatively high, a 5.3-inch digital instrument cluster that looks like the one fitted to the ID.3 hatchback sold in Europe and the ID.4 crossover, and a 10-inch touchscreen for the infotainment system (a 12-inch unit is optional). Predictably, the interior went through roughly the same toning down process as the exterior as the Buzz morphed into a production model. We’ll get a long-wheelbase model that hasn’t been unveiled yet it should look just like the European-spec model but with more space between the front and rear axles. This is what Volkswagen refers to as the short-wheelbase model, and it’s not coming to the United States. The Buzz variant that I drove in Denmark measures 185.5 inches long, 78.1 inches wide, and 76.8 inches tall, so it’s about as long as a Tiguan but around 10 inches taller and five inches wider. The front end isn’t entirely flat and the front doors are positioned behind the front wheels rather than over them, but the design is as close to the old van’s as modern regulations allow. In terms of proportions, the Buzz is pretty spot on. This is intentional - Volkswagen aimed to echo the original model without cloning it. It’s the same story out back: The lights are horizontal, located right below the big hatch’s window, and connected by a light bar. The headlights aren’t round, for example, and they’re much higher than the original van’s. ![]() While you can tell that the Buzz is on the same branch of the Volkswagen family tree as the split- and bay-window Buses prized by hippies decades ago, designers decided not to go full-retro as they did with the New Beetle released in 1997. ![]()
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