The new VW Bulli ends an period | EUROtoday

At the beginning of the IAA Transportation industrial car commerce truthful in Hanover, Volkswagen introduced the brand new era of its Transporter. On the eve of the exhibition, which opens to journalists and commerce guests on Monday, model boss Carsten Intra introduced the “New Transporter”, which is to succeed the earlier T6.1. Intra was assured that the brand new mannequin would construct on the success of the six earlier “Bulli” generations.

Unlike its predecessor, the T6.1, which was discontinued on the finish of June, VW will now not produce the brand new van itself. It was developed collectively with Ford. And it should even be constructed along with its sister mannequin, the Ford Transit, at Ford in Turkey. The mannequin is scheduled to be delivered from the tip of 2024, initially in chosen markets in Europe, after which in Germany from the start of 2025.

With the launch of the brand new Transporter, VW says it’s finishing the restructuring of its Transporter household. Instead of 1 mannequin – the “Bulli”, which has been inbuilt six generations since 1950 – there at the moment are three parallel sequence for the phase: the Multivan introduced in 2022 on the passenger automotive platform adopted from the Golf and Passat as a household and leisure car, the totally electrical ID. Buzz and the Transporter now introduced from the collaboration with Ford.

The predecessor mannequin T6.1 was beforehand the best-selling mannequin of the VW Commercial Vehicles (VWN) model. Production ended on the finish of June.

Ford and VW agreed on an in depth cooperation on gentle industrial automobiles in 2020. After the Amarok pick-up truck, the van is now the second VW mannequin to return from the associate. In return, VW is supplying the Ford Tourneo Connect supply van, which is being constructed along with the VW sister mannequin Caddy within the Polish VWN plant in Poznan.

At the start of the month, Volkswagen introduced that it will considerably tighten its austerity program. Redundancies and plant closures are now not dominated out, and the job assure that was presupposed to final till 2029 has been canceled.

Employees on the VWN plant in Hanover are additionally anxious about their future. The website has round 14,000 workers.