there's a few in my town, you see them coming down the street and as they approach you expect to hear that classic vw motor .. and it glides by like coasting ... uphill 😳
i've had classic aircooled vws for years, currently a 77 poptop camper,
and if could convert i would ... aircooled parts
are becoming rarer than snake legs and hen's teeth

glad to see vw doing this, will probably sell bigly

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to buy one, chop it down, and drop on the fiberglass body for an EV dune Buggy?

the new model won't be cheap, per article

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This model has an entirely new driveline doing away with the old transaxle to the point that the old engine compartment is used as a second trunk...You could feasibly chop the routine 10-14 inches out of the chassis, making it a 2 seater with the related turning abilities of the originals. Further though with the new driveline even more weight and inches (and most importantly weight) could be removed at the rear. Even with no "performance modifications" you would have 80 Bhp which is double that of the first buggies. And I wonder what a good designer/fabricator could do for a fresh buggy body reimagined with much less rear overhang to protect the now non-existent IC motor? I just hope it happens and would love to see the outcome. And oh yeah-depending on location some batteries might be displaced while chopping the chassis-but buggies traditionally have no trunk but did carry the fuel tank in the front trunk-and there many, perhaps even extra, batteries could reside. Now if I hit the mega-millions lottery I would have the first one.

They call their concept the ID Buggy, and is declared "feasible for production". VW will never release this as a production car as it can not pass crash tests in any country, but the platform will be used on coming electric cars and the body can be sold separately, as in the '60s

https://jalopnik.com/vws-electric-dune-buggy-finally-made-it-to-the-beach-1837308653

I hadn't seen that and it's something special if they will sell just the platform. I still think it could lose a couple inches of wheelbase and to me that was the essence of a buggy-you chopped the wheelbase and extended the pittman to shorten steering input. Like I said-if I hit the lottery we could sort this out...