While the VW ID Buzz is still almost four years away from production, designers inside Volkswagen have several model variations of it on the drawing boards.

At a recent VW dinner that was part of the Pebble Beach week, I got to talk to head of design Klaus Bischoff, who seems to be something of a van enthusiast. Or at least he seems enthusiastic about the coming ID Buzz. He and his team have drawings for two new van models and they have a full-sized concept for a third. Bischoff said the concept is a panel van that will see the light of day at “a commercial vehicle show next month.” We looked on the calendar and saw the “IAA Nutzfahrzeuge” Sept. 7 to Oct. 4 at the Deutsche Messe Hannover. Nutzfahrzeuge means “commercial vehicles” and IAA is the same group that puts on the Frankfurt Auto Show. So maybe the panel van will be there.

Bischoff says he also has drawings of single- and double-cab versions of the ID Buzz. He has presented these to higherups but said enthusiastic response from the public - that's YOU Mr. and Mrs. America! - would go a long way toward convincing the bosses at VW AG to actually build them. Apparently these things are not as obvious to some people as they are to you and me. So, "Hey! VW Board members, build these!" Think that'll do it? How about, "Achtung! VW Vorstandsmitgleider, baue diese!"

The images you see here are done by Autoweek's own Jay Ramey, who's good at that sort of thing. It's not like VW handed us anything on paper. But the images are done based on official photos of the VW ID Buzz, so they're proportionally correct and probably close to what a production version of such van variants might look like.

Volkswagen has not offered one of its vans in the U.S. market since 2003, when the T4 “Eurovan” went out of production (we're not counting the Routan minivan, which was just a badge-swapped Dodge Caravan). A couple months ago VW let some U.S. journos drive a few of its Euro-spec T6 camper vans, and that went quite well. I drove one and wanted to move right in and live in it. They had to pry it from my cold, clammy hands… along with some extra weisswurst I thought no one would miss. The new microbus seems like a no-brainer, and these potential new stablemates should be similarly popular. VW could singlehandedly make minivans cool again. Come on VW, build them all!

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