I'm kind of happy to see this; if VW can market an already decent offering (Dodge has made Caravan since I was born, going on 23 years now) then we might get a Westfalia version -- to which I'd buy in a heartbeat; even if Automatic. What this does guarantee, though, is it will never see a 5-speed and unlikely to be diesel ever. We can hope that it's got a nice Microbus-like feel to it, or somethig akin to the Sharon sold over seas.
This isn't really a bad thing, I don't think. Even if you think it is: VWs current marketing strategy is to hook the young ones at 25+ with Jetta/Golf V, then offer a van and SUV when they are married with kids 10 years or so later. The idea is to grab up the "working class" of button pushers, at least that's what everything thats come with our Jetta V has led me to believe.
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