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The fast and the furnished: A tour of modern Volkswagen bus campers

With the original Volkswagen T2 Microbus set for extinction, the days of VW bread loaf camper conversions appear numbered unless something like the Bulli concept comes to fruition. As Gizmag learned at the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon, however, the VW bus camper is not only alive in the 21st century, it's thriving.

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Last year, news reports of a 2013 T2 demise began surfacing, indicating that Brazilian safety legislation requiring airbags and anti-lock brakes would officially make the antiquated mini-bus a thing of the past. Volkswagen revealed last month that the iconic bus will be phased out with a 600-model Last Edition version. Those 600 buyers will get their chance to buy into the VW T2 bus dream, but after that, daydreams of concert-to-concert road tripping in brand-new conversion campers will officially be outdated.
Or so the "half empty" crowd would have you believe. While later generations of Volkswagen vans don't have the distinctive styling or iconic status of the T2, they still make sound platforms for small, maneuverable, mobile-living caravans. In fact, the VW badge appeared again and again throughout the halls of the 2013 Caravan Salon in Dusseldorf, popping-up on everything from basic, factory-produced models to a juiced up camper billed as the fastest in the world.



The SpaceCamper TH5 is built on the VW T5-based SpaceCamper Open, which the company revealed at last year's Dusseldorf Salon. That model's name is derived from the dual side doors that help to make it airy and flexible. The kitchen unit pulls out of one of the side doors, getting you cooking outdoors mere minutes after you pull into the campsite.

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