Motor Trend - First Drive: 2009 Volkswagen Routan

[Merc1]

Although aging hippies may never forgive VW for shelving the iconic Microbus concept it showed at the 2001 Geneva Auto Salon, expanding the brand's scope and reach with a people-mover aimed at U.S. buyers never left the automaker's wish list. The question was how to do it in a timely, cost-effective manner -- sad to say, never an option on the Microbus menu. The answer? Find a partner who'd already done most of the heavy-and expensive-design lifting. With an all-new iteration of the world's most popular minivan rolling out for 2008 from its underutilized Windsor, Ontario, assembly plant, Chrysler became the obvious choice.


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2009 Volkswagen Routan - First Drive - Motor Trend


Oops, please move the Routan section.


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[Giannis]

VW Routan? First time i hear about it! BTW, nice place for the transmission knob

 

[PanterroR]

Oops, please move the Routan section.

Done.