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SGKent 
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:13 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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This thread started at 6:40am today. That one started at 11:24am today.
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78busboy
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| timvw7476 wrote: |
if that is a new VW bus, I've got some bad news for you:
Toyota already built the Previa many many years ago.
This new concept vehicle looks like a Previa in the first
trimester of pregnancy. |
Ha! I also own a Toyota Previa Alltrac. Just got me from NYC to Colorado and back for a ski trip. (On 10 or so tanks of gas.) |
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termuehlen
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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Why can't they build a "cab forward" design? The batteries are in the floor. The motors are low and in the drive-line. It seems like this is design is very similar the the gasoline "new bus" that has been proposed by VW over and over again. It seems to me that the front seats are so far back, that the efficiency of the bus lineage is lost. An electric version should make it possible to return to the use of space that made the bus great.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| termuehlen wrote: |
| Why can't they build a "cab forward" design? |
Crashworthiness. |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| KTPhil wrote: |
| termuehlen wrote: |
| Why can't they build a "cab forward" design? |
Crashworthiness. |
But that would remove backwards thinking people....
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APPLEGREENVW
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| timvw7476 wrote: |
if that is a new VW bus, I've got some bad news for you:
Toyota already built the Previa many many years ago.
This new concept vehicle looks like a Previa in the first
trimester of pregnancy. |
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70Crew
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:56 am Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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Just got back from the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The new bus display was very popular with the crowd. Best part of the vehicle…. It has a small Buddha-like statue on the dash which spins around while elevated about ¼ inch. Probably done with some sort of magnetics. Now THAT I would pay for.
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Cali_Army_Guy
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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While I don't hate the looks of this I don't love it. The wifey and I are putting serious thought in to putting a deposit down on a Tesla Model 3 though. Now that is a good looking EV.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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they almost deserve to go down the tanks...
C'mon
A floating buddha, seriously?
Should've been a Dancing Hula Girl.
Epic Fail.
with a capital F.
And, also, round headlights, can't skimp on that.
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tarandusVDub
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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I thought Buddha was bald...and usually only in a loin cloth?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:48 pm Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| tarandusVDub wrote: |
| I thought Buddha was bald...and usually only in a loin cloth? |
Right. The thing on the dash even has pointy ears. It's a damn troll doll. I wonder if VW will color match the hair to your vehicle like this one is.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:27 am Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| Cali_Army_Guy wrote: |
| tarandusVDub wrote: |
| I thought Buddha was bald...and usually only in a loin cloth? |
Right. The thing on the dash even has pointy ears. It's a damn troll doll. I wonder if VW will color match the hair to your vehicle like this one is. |
It's their VW "Fast" all mellowed out.
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qwerty
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| Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: New EV Bay Bus announced this morning |
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Some pics in VW Sightings gallery
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:30 am Post subject: Re: new ev bay announced this morning |
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| Malokin Martin wrote: |
Ugh. The only tangible thing that will come over all this hype is another 6 months of:
1.) people texting me "have you seen this?"
2.) people reposting this over and over and over again on my Facebook
3.) multiple threads here started by people with the title "just saw this"
4.) no actual production car. |
^ Exactly! |
X2 on this. Until I see a commercial or advertisements, it's all just hype.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: New EV Bay Bus announced this morning |
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"X2 on this. Until I see a commercial or advertisements, it's all just hype."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2O58X4NNbQ
I'm not saying it's great. But I do think they're going to build it this time. |
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amishman
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: New EV Bay Bus announced this morning |
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Price will be so sky rocket and only battery only, will be a small market I think. Now if they made a gas or hybrid version that was cheaper for the masses, I would get excited. No way I will be able to afford something $50K to $100K range or whatever this clocks in at in 2022. tj
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