Beautiful and probably brand new Volkswagen T5 Multivan, spotted last winter in Berlin, with down-to-earth no-nonsense anti-theft protection: Wheel clamp on the rear left wheel, and the front right wheel chained like a bicycle to a street tree guard. New VW buses make it into the top-ten of most stolen cars in Germany every year, and Berlin has the highest rate of stolen cars (per number of insured vehicles) of any German city. So probably not a bad idea if you have to park your precious van on the street. Nice re-use of the chain a few days later in a different spot, locking up the steering wheel to the A-pillar handhold.
Anti-Theft Protection, Old School
21 12 2014Comments : 3 Comments »
Tags: anti-theft protection, multivan, red, T5, wheel clamp
Categories : This and that, VW Bus spotting
New VW Transporter Commercial
6 06 2014Link to a new German Volkswagen commercial that popped up on TV this evening: “Most vehicles are being used. But there is one that is being loved, for more than 60 years now.” Oh so true!
http://lovetheoriginal.com/de/de/

Screenshot of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles web site (http://lovetheoriginal.com/de/de/)
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Tags: Bulli, Commercial, Kombi, T1, T5, TV ad, VW Bus
Categories : History of the VW Bus, VW Buses in the Media
Beautiful VW Campervan Ad
28 01 2014Stumbled over this beautiful new VW ad some days ago. Nicely playing with the glorious past to promote the latest model, the T5 California. I guess it’s from around 2012. For a very informative review on the many pluses and few cons of the California, have a look at this post by Wild About Scotland.
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Tags: advert, California, campervan conversion, Camping Mobil, interior, Kombi ads, production, Promo, T5, Volkswagen
Categories : VW Buses in the Media
It’s getting cold…
25 01 2014Winter has finally arrived in Berlin. After an unusually mild winter so far, it started snowing last Wednesday. Now temperatures dropped to -13°C last night and tonight, and will go up to only -9°C tomorrow. No idea what the wind chill factor is, but it feels very cold.
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Tags: snow, T4, T5, Volkswagen, VW, VW Bus, VW Bus spotting, winter
Categories : This and that
VW Bus T-Shirts No. 11
4 07 2012As a follow-up on yesterday’s post on the upcoming 5. Berlin VW Bus Festival on July 27-29, 2012, here is last year’s festival T shirt, with the T3/T25 in the center of it all. Nice drawing!
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Tags: Bulli, Kombi, split-window, splittie, T Shirt, T1, T2a, T4, T5, Volkswagen
Categories : VW Bus Festivals, VW Bus Merchandising, VW Bus T-Shirts
“Bulli” Special Edition
31 03 2012Here is something for the VW bus nerds. Not very cool, but perhaps interesting: Some time ago I blogged about the various names for Volkswagen buses in German and in English. Perhaps weird to the English native speaker, but the German term for all VW buses is “Bulli”. The general idea is that Bulli was derived from a combination of bus and delivery van (in German “Bus und Lieferwagen“), but Wikipedia states that the term was coined VW-internally even before it was used by the public and that it referred to the work horse qualities of this all-purpose vehicle (“like a bull”). But VW was not allowed to use this name officially as another German company, Kässbohrer, had both “Bully” and “bulli” trademarked for their snow groomers, the Pistenbully. Only in 2007, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the VW Bus, Kässbohrer agreed to sell the trademarks to Volkswagen. Wikipedia mentions this episode only on the German version of the VW Bus entry. To celebrate this event, Volkswagen released the special edition (German: Sondermodell) “Bulli” of the T5. In my earlier post, I could not find any pictures on the web, but now I bumped into one of these in our street. So here are some pics of this Sondermodell.
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Tags: Bulli, Kombi, panel van, Sondermodell Bulli, T5
Categories : VW Bus spotting