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75 years of Bulli
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is celebrating the milestone birthday of the longest-built commercial vehicle in Europe.
75 years of Bulli
On March 8, 1950, the first transporter - called T1 for short - rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg. Since then, more than 12.5 million more “Bulli” have followed - produced in Hanover from 1956 onwards. This makes it the most successful European commercial vehicle of all time. From the T1 to the sixth generation T6.1, one platform always provided the basis for all derivatives - from the transporter to the camper icons. But the age of e-mobility necessitated a transformation of the all-rounder and thus a paradigm shift: a “van for everyone” became “the right van for everyone”.
Evolution of an icon
The start of the new era was marked in 2021 by the current Multivan - a leisure and business van with an optional plug-in hybrid drive. This was followed in 2022 with the ID. Buzz is the first fully electric van in large series. In 2025, the third series of vans, which is also new, will begin to gain momentum. The current Bulli range consists of three pillars with six basic models: the Multivan and the identical California, the ID. Buzz and the commercial vehicle ID. Buzz Cargo as well as the transporter and the technically identical shuttle version Caravelle. They all still carry the DNA of the multifunctional T1 today in their design and structural layout. And according to the decision-makers at Volkswagen, it should stay that way.