VW closes T6.1 order book today (3/3/23) !!!! - T7 Next? or T8?

[Stay Frosty]

My only problem would be having to sell our house to buy one of these...




The downside of retiring is everything suddenly seems so expensive!
Yes, those are 21" wheels.

 

[Sackmycook]

Barely any public transport at all around here.

Keep off the moors, stick to the roads....

 

[T6ChrisO]

My only problem would be having to sell our house to buy one of these...
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The downside of retiring is everything suddenly seems so expensive!
Yes, those are 21" wheels.

The design is up there with the Fiat Multipla. Design team should be shot dead whilst their families watch (can you tell I dont like it?)

 

[MyOtherCarIsA]

The design is up there with the Fiat Multipla. Design team should be shot dead whilst their families watch (can you tell I dont like it?)

The Fiat Multipla was a genius bit of packaging though. I wish they still made something in that format. It might have looked like a frog, but Fiat knew it - they were delivered in the UK with a sticker in the rear window that read, "wait until you see the front". I think they're cool precisely because they weren't trying to be cool at all.

 

[DaveD]

@MyOtherCarIsA Fiat Multipla?

 

[MyOtherCarIsA]

I wish. If I had the cash, I'd love a sleeper Multipla. Imagine getting smoked by something that looks like that.

 

[Stay Frosty]

All joking apart that Id Buzz comes with the big wheels, lowered suspension and two tone paint from the factory saving a lot of buying the "wrong" big wheels, aftermarket suspension or dubious two tone combo.
I would have one, really liked that lime green one at Busfest last year.

 

[T6ChrisO]

I wish. If I had the cash, I'd love a sleeper Multipla. Imagine getting smoked by something that looks like that.

A friend of mine has a 700bhp Skoda Yeti

 

[Ali-G]

No surprises here, surely?

New electric cars are overpriced; the technology is immature; the infrastructure is woefully inadequate; and now that the keen, the green and browbeaten have bought-in to the segment, there's only the indifferent, the sceptical and the downright hostile left to sell to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, I think that EV's are going to be the automotive equivalent of the Betamax, I think hydrogen is going to be the way forward eventually.

 

[Ali-G]

A friend of mine has a 700bhp Skoda Yeti

Trouble is it'll always be a Yeti.

 

[Bav]

Yes, I think that EV's are going to be the automotive equivalent of the Betamax, I think hydrogen is going 3be the way forward eventually.

Agree re hydrogen. The Betamax analogy is slightly misleading though, as Betamax was technically superior and only lost out to VHS on commercial grounds. IMO electric cars are inferior to ICE in both regards and would likely have ended up a technological cul-de-sac if it were not for the political classes' aspiration to restrict personal transport (thereby rendering the range issue irrelevant).

 

[Shaun Witts]

Agree re hydrogen. The Betamax analogy is slightly misleading though, as Betamax was technically superior and only lost out to VHS on commercial grounds. IMO electric cars are inferior to ICE in both regards and would likely have ended up a technological cul-de-sac if it were not for the political classes' aspiration to restrict personal transport (thereby rendering the range issue irrelevant).

Surely the instant torque and acceleration of an electric motor is never going to go away. I agree that battery fuelled vehicles may not be the long term future of private transport, but having seen and experienced the effortless grunt of an EV, I can’t envisage a future without some sort of hybrid that will harness that power.

 

[T6ChrisO]

Trouble is it'll always be a Yeti.

Tbf not much left of it is a Yeti ha ha

 

[Bav]

Surely the instant torque and acceleration of an electric motor is never going to go away. I agree that battery fuelled vehicles may not be the long term future of private transport, but having seen and experienced the effortless grunt of an EV, I can’t envisage a future without some sort of hybrid that will harness that power.

Fair comment - EVs do have some advantages.

 

[MyOtherCarIsA]

Trouble And the best thing is it'll always be a Yeti.

FTFY

 

[volts]

A friend of mine has a 700bhp Skoda Yeti

Any links/photos

 

[Bav]

Keep off the moors, stick to the roads....

Baaah

 

[Dm85]

I bet they share the same mechanics. That’s the reason they platform share to cut costs and use the one design in a different outfit

 

[z1ts]

Any links/photos

Got to be this one:-




Only one I know of at 700bhp!!!

Full write up (LOOOOOONG read!) here:- The Twins. (And Yeti RS) blinding bit of kit and a proper understated motor with monster power!

 

[CarreraRSR]

Agree re hydrogen. The Betamax analogy is slightly misleading though, as Betamax was technically superior and only lost out to VHS on commercial grounds. IMO electric cars are inferior to ICE in both regards and would likely have ended up a technological cul-de-sac if it were not for the political classes' aspiration to restrict personal transport (thereby rendering the range issue irrelevant).

Didn’t VHS win over Betamax only because the porn industry backed VHS? If only Pornhub backed EV and it’ll be a done deal