Volkswagen Hits The Pause Button On Bluesport And Bulli
Some unfortunate news out of the Paris show; we won’t be seeing the Volkswagen Bluesport Roadster or the Microbus-esque Bulli any time soon.
VW R&D Chief Ulrich Hackenberg told the UK’s Autocar that “there is no business case” for the retro Bulli. The Bluesport sports car may have a future, but not right now
“The segment is falling if anything,” said Hackenberg. “I don’t want to go to the board now with it as a rejection would kill it off completely. If we can make a business case for it, it can be put into production quite quickly. But if we make the proposal now, it dies.”
Take a wild guess as to what’s next on VW’s plate. If you said “MQB-based crossover”, you’re correct! I’d rather the beautiful Concept R made it to production than either of those.
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I understand that making these cars take a lot of time, but with the release of the redesigned Beetle, this would've been a great time to keep riding that wave. Oh well. We get crossovers instead.
Bulli's too small anyway. Now let's learn whether VW still plans to build a new Transporter.
The best part of this plan was the notion of a Bugatti version of this little lightweight. That would have been spectacular.
Does anyone else think it would be awesome of mazda decided to steal VW's steam by dropping their 2.2l diesel(173hp, 310 lb-ft) into the next mx-5?