Next week the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon, Europe's largest recreational vehicles show will commence, we have already heard of one completely pointless design study set to be shown from Fiat, now comes Volkswagen's waste of space. The commercial vehicles sector of the VW Group will present the Caddy Topos Sail design concept at its stand which features a wooden boat deck on its roof.
It is based on the Volkswagen Caddy Life, the boot door sports a set of four wooden and aluminium steps leading up to the top of the vehicle where we find the decking area surrounded by aluminium roof racks preventing users from falling off the edge.
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles created the design study as part of the celebrations of 20 years of the California camper.
Among the display of leisure vehicles and campers on the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles stand at Europe’s largest recreational vehicle show that starts in Düsseldorf, Germany this weekend will be an interesting Caddy Topos Sail design concept which takes its nautical theme to the extreme of having a wooden boat deck on its roof.
The Caddy Topos Sail design concept, based on the smallest model in the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle van range, uses design cues from classic yachts and has its multi-functional roof covered with wooden decking surrounded by aluminium roof rails.
The wooden sun deck on the roof is accessed via four matching wooden and aluminium steps in the Caddy’s tailgate, and to complete the design theme there are wooden inserts along the side of the vehicle and in the rear bumper.
Other highlights of the Volkswagen stand demonstrate its strong heritage in leisure vehicles with a celebration of 20 years of the California camper.
Volkswagen campers became popular almost as soon as the Transporter van was introduced in the 1950s, and the California model was introduced in 1988 when the third generation of the Volkswagen Transporter was in production.
With California conversions of the subsequent fourth generation of Transporter van and today’s latest fifth generation model, more than 80,000 have been sold, which must make it one of the most successful campers ever.
Today’s California was introduced in 2006 and is unique as it is now made by Volkswagen, who must be the only vehicle manufacturer to produce its own camper. It is built to the same high quality standards as the rest of the range, and sold with a full three year warranty.
The Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles stand can be found in Hall 16 at Dusseldorf Caravan Salon (www.caravan-salon.de), which is open to the public from 30 August to 7 September.
useless. showcar. nothing more. one funny thing though was that: "(...)surrounded by aluminium roof racks preventing users from falling off the edge". now, I'm no expert, but I'd like to see anything bigger than a rat prevented from falling from that roof by those racks. hah
You may want to read the press release again... The show car is not based on the California, it's based on the Caddy Life, a model not available in the UK, where you can get the Caddy only as a commercial van.
