The new VW Microbus will go on sale in 2005 for a base sticker of - hold on - $28,000, according to Reuters and this week's Autoweek. Check out
Autoweek.com for the whole story. They will be built in Transporter city, Hanover, Germany. You can get a 230-HP V6, a folding rear table, rearview camera, rubber-mat flooring, and a DVD game station with 7-inch foldaway screen. No word yet on a camper.
In other news, the LMP-675 class winner at the 24 hours of LeMans was a VW-powered Reynard-Lehmann chassis. It finished 19th overall. Finishing a best-of-the-rest 4th (behind the dominant Audis) was a (VW-owned) Bentley EXP Speed 8 prototype.