To expand on what Ron wrote. I visited the Westfalia plant in June of '05 and got a tour of the plant and museum by their director of marketing. At that time they were phasing out the production of VW conversions. There were only a handful on the production line and a couple in the back lot. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Benz, they now concentrate on two products. The first are the camper versions of MBz vans and trucks. The second is they are using some of the workshops to do the final assembly on the Maybach luxury car (to compete w/Rolls and Bentley).

From what I've seen VW is assembling the van conversions themselves, and the larger campers, those built on the van frames, are being built by Karmann.

Ric

> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:07:51 -0400
> From: vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM
> Subject: Re: Mention of the Possible New MicroBus
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> > Of course where does that leave Westfalia who wants to
> > convert an American van to a camper? Hmmm, do they start with
> > Routan then re-tool for the bigger and better Microbus, wait
> > for the Microbus and forget the Routan,  hmmmm.
> 
> 
> Westfalia is now a subsidiary of Daimler Benz, and their ties to Volkswagen
> are nowhere near what they once were.  VW now designs and builds their own
> T5 camper in Germany.  I would assume that if a U.S. made VW camper ever
> became a reality, it would be outfitted either by VW themselves or a U.S.
> company.
> 
> - Ron Salmon
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