Hi Lee,

I spotted one of those on the road up here back in December:

http://www.pottsfamily.ca/VW_type2/NewMicroBus.jpg

Happy trails,

Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1973/74/79 Westfakia Conversion **Bob the Tomato**  LY3H
1977 Sunroof Automatic L63H/L90D
http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
http://www.geocities.com/busesofthecorn

On 29-Mar-04, at 9:27 PM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 3/29/04 10:16:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> lee@ROESNER.NET
> writes:
>
>
>> Hi Kids,
>>
>> A friend of mine spotted the new Microbus here in Crystal lake
>> Illinois...he
>> was confused about what he saw until I showed him a picture and said
>> YES
>> that's it! Said it look very cool. I can only assume Motorola still
>> has
>> there hands in the electronics if it's in this area. Not sure why
>> else it
>> would be here...maybe someday we'll see it in production!!
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>
> lee, actually the "new microbus" is going to get a whole new nosejob -
> different front end design (thank god) - before it makes
> production..so if that was
> inded what your friend saw, it was obviously a test mule..  was it the
> same
> color as the concept one?   i doubt there are more than one or 2 of
> these in
> existance at this point...
>
> chris
>
>