http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/flower-power-to-return-with-new-kombi-20110301-1bc7n.html?comments=14#comments

As an owner of a 1978 type 2, I'm afraid I'm not impressed. It's nothing more than an estate car trading off the legacy of the Kombi.

No sliding doors, no massive load space / camper / people carrying ability. I reckon it's probably ANOTHER variant on the (albeit excellent) Golf/A3/A4/Polo/Octavia/Leon/Beetle floorpan.

Could be that I'm biased because of my love of the original though - and they're never going to build another rear-engined air-cooled VW.

Whaddya reckon? Would you own one (provided it wasn't ludicrously expensive, which it probably will be over here)?

Split screen combi......

Probably the coolest vehicle in the world

I had a VW camper back in pommie land.
Amazing for parties, could fit 8 people in, beers smoke and pizza cooking in da oven.
unfortunately the older combis rust out in the UK due to salting the roads in winter and require a lot of maintenance to make it through the yearly MOT (roadworthy).

mine was the boxy 1980s shape......BUT.......

mine was created by a chippie that worked at sunseeker powerboats (you know those multi, multi million dollar power boats in europe).
The interior was lined with some amazing wood, hand crafted wardrobes, storage spaces and even a walnut dash and 4x4ft removable sunroof ideal for 2 mates with super soakers to squirt the passing ladies with.
it also had a mini bar with room for 2 inverted bottles of jack, complete with optics (auto serving measure taps)
it was the don.

I NEED ANOTHER !!!!!

At 1st glance it looked like an over grown Mini Copper (new one)

I loved my Combi Van...long time ago though

Why would one purchase a new Kombi, when you can get an old one and quite easily slot a WRX motor into it

13b? never was there a finer use for a 20b!



Long time favourite of mine in the scene here- was never much to look at but god forbid if you ever lined up beside it and wasn't the same old shyte. It has wheelie bars now for obvious reasons.

That porsche powered vid above is a bit surreal, would love to see sabine schmidt do a lap of the nurburgring in that.

It has to happen one day- beetles arent beetles anymore and kombi's wont be kombi's.

Mate of mine now has my old 12at in his beetle. One of many projects so I haven't seen it run yet- was good for 12's in my old rx-7 should be mad in something half the weight [}:)]. He is a vw nutter, also owns a type 3 Karmann thing.

Truth be told I was never into VW's at all, they are odd (above friend handed me magneto thing one day and it had me puzzled for a while trying to figure out wtf it was). Then I met a guy that was rebuilding up a manx and was around through the build up- he sold me when he asked me to pick up the floor pan & move it and suddenly mmm I want one, so much potential

I'd heard that some of the kombi gearboxes were quite strong, maybe it's just strong compared to the bug boxes.

Anyway back to the new kombi, I thought they had already called one of the transporter things a kombi. That new thing actually is quite sensible but hardly a kombi in err concept.