Wolfsburg, 24 October 2007 - The “New Small Family” from Volkswagen is gaining speed on its journey to the future. Just six weeks after the world premiere of the up! – the two-door city specialist – Europe’s largest automobile producer is now introducing the second member of the “New Small Family” at the Tokyo Motor Show: The space up! concept car. “The world premiere of the up! at the IAA in Frankfurt served as an initial test to see how the concept of our New Small Family would be received in Europe. And the results of this test were more than favorable,” says Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, Head of Technical Development. Volkswagen’s chief engineer continues: “The second member of this new family now follows in the space up!. The small van shows that we are consistently exploiting every millimeter of space and creating an emotional design.” FULL STORY...

in a CL its not how fast you drive to get to Point A but how many shortcuts you know

Build the space up!

Build the plug up! (third up! rumoured to be a plug in hybrid)

Congrats to VW on the winning formula

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I love it!

Im Sold on The Small Family !!!

Still thinking about something to write...

Modified by ftratrny at 7:36 AM 10-24-2007

I like my cars like I like my women...exotic, imported and fun to "drive".

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Vr6's should sound like chewbaca getting raped.

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'Ring testing a pickup is like seeing what a nun is like in bed.

"Right. As anyone with a background in biology knows, a human zygote is a dolphin." zukiphile

Space Up! is a vehicle I would definitely shop if it were available here.

Holding out for Tiguan 4MOTION TDI 6MT!

Do eet, Volkswagen.

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Looks unlike anything on the market. Love the rear hatch window!

Go VW!

Now put some more effort into 'Das Neu Scirocco'.

This is what I'm stoked about.

Can you imagine how much fun this layout is going to be in the hands of an enthusiast? I'm assuming it's RWD, and rear engined. Just like the classic type 1.

People are going to have a field day with the swaps.

iracing

I'm really happy that they're going in this direction. This is the best VW news since 1967. Well, that may be a bit premature, but I'm really diggin' this idea. I'd still rather have the smaller UP! (I'm with you Larry, I hate that name as well.)

Quick question: If you end a sentence with UP!, do you use a period afterward?

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A restoration to me is some sort of exorcism/brainwash for a car. /rant.

Hmmm. Shades of the type III!

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A restoration to me is some sort of exorcism/brainwash for a car. /rant.

Just like the IROC concept ended up being Scirocco, think Lupo instead of just UP.

P.S. I, too, prefer this to the two-door concept.

I can see the door design aparently takes side impact protection into account.

What I wonder about is rear impact protection. When there is only a couple inches of space between your passengers' heads and the hood of an SUV there is only so much you can do.

But I like it. And I like it better than the 2 door UP.

So:

Keep Up! the good work.

Hook it UP! to a 3cyl TDI.

Dress it UP! with a bit of bright work.

Sign me UP!

more to come

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lets talk about safety... ??? i seriously doubt these will pass dot safety standards. which makes me sad because that means we'll prolly never see them.

dont be fooled by its small size, if the SMART can pass with flying colours im sure VW engineers can think something up

in a CL its not how fast you drive to get to Point A but how many shortcuts you know