Volkswagen Transporter
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Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
- Also called
- Volkswagen Type 2 (until 2002) Kombi
- Production
- November 1949 – present
- Assembly
- Germany: Hanover
- Class
- Light commercial vehicle / Large MPV (Multivan/Caravelle) ( M )
- Body style
- Van (cargo/passenger) Minibus Campervan Pickup truck Crew cab Chassis cab
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- van
- Has part
- Volkswagen Transporter T5
- Creator
- Ben Pon
- Manufacturer
- Volkswagen Group
- Image
- VW e-Caravelle, IAA 2024, Hanover (P1200118).jpg
- Brand
- Volkswagen
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- Commons category
- Volkswagen Type 2
- inception
- 1948-00-00
- location of creation
- Wolfsburg
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Volkswagen Transporter, based on the Volkswagen Group's T platform, now in its seventh generation, refers to a series of vans produced for over 70 years and marketed worldwide.
The T series is now considered an official Volkswagen Group automotive platform. and generations are sequentially named T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 and T7. Pre-dating the T platform designations, the first three generations were named Type 2, indicating their relative position to the Type 1, or Beetle. As part of the T platform, the first three generations are retroactively named T1, T2 and T3.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volkswagen Transporter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.