How Much Is A VW Camper Van

How Much Is A VW Camper Van?

Why are so many people people drawn to want a VW Camper Van over the numerous other models of Camper Van available to them?

After all, VW Camper Vans do come at a premium cost due to their desirability amongst the Camping and Outdoors Community.

VW Camper Vans are indeed iconic, you see them everywhere in the media, magazines, movies and obviously out on the open road due to their large numbers.

In the next few minutes we’ll discover why the original humble VW Panel Van became the fashionable icon that it is, and if that adulation is justified or if it is just the result of clever marketing.

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What Types Of What Types Of VW Camper Van Are There?

Volkswagen normally referred to as VW is a German company famed for it’s well known VW Beetle, known in the VW Group of Companies as the Type 1.

When VW introduced the first of it’s prototype van range in 1949, the original vans with their rounded, almost boat like lines became known as VW Type 2’s, a name that has stuck to this day.

Just to confuse matters a little the Type 1 VW is called The VW Beetle and is a car, whereas Type 2 VWs are Vans and are classified as T1s – T6s, depending on which of the major design updates and manufacturing runs they were produced under. There is also now the new All Electric VW Van called the ID Buzz which is causing quite a stir in the media.

Due to their size, affordability and of course the period in history when they were introduced, VW Vans were adopted by many of those involved the Hippie Movement.

VW Panel Vans were soon being converted into Camper Vans on an almost industrial scale by hip, peace loving individuals. These homes on wheels would allow them to pursue the free roaming lifestyle that they were searching for during a time of civil upheaval.

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