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everyone all here at v-net wood CES 2016 and check it out I'm with the Volkswagen buddy that's right don't you just want to give it a hug it's just so cute now Volkswagen wanted to kind of bring back the nostalgia of the old microbuses at the time of course we can't have a flat front nose because you know there's something called crash standards these days so we do have a little bit of a a protrusion here in the nose area gives it a little bit more of a Scion xB look than it does a microbus but still it's always great to see Volkswagen kind of harkening back to his heritage now one of the great things about this car is that it is all-wheel drive that's right there's two electric motors that are power in both the front and the rear axles it's gonna get 233 miles on a single charge and it has a top speed of up to 93 miles an hour all wheel drive 93 miles an hour sign me up all right now there's a lot of really cool gesture controls here so let me see if I can open up this side door so I'm just gonna put my hand right here and then oh my god look at it open them that's so cool you can even open up this door oh come on so in front of me I've got three it screens alright I've got a screen over here that's telling me everything like the status of my car so I know I've got these doors are open apparently I've gone point four miles and I'm traveling at 30 miles an hour but check out this really cool three-dimensional navigation here I've also got all of my climate controls here and you can see I didn't even touch it and things are coming up things are posting up so let's see here no battery charge of three charging devices hmm let's see let's see and you and I've got all of my all of my audio all of my cool things here now if you take a look at this steering wheel what's great about it is that it is a multifunctional steering wheel but it's kind of like multifunctional 3.0 because there's no actual buttons everything here is done with haptic feedback so I can just slide my finger over the button and I get a little buzz to let me know that I'm in the right spot so that of course is pretty cool okay let's go around the back come on guys I do like that we've got these taillights here that integrate right up into the D pillar that's a really nice look and one of the other things that they've got that's in it that kind of helps bring back the microbus is that we've got really short front and rear overhangs so again we can't make it look exactly like my beloved air-cooled bus but it's still looking pretty good now there's a lot of great gesture controls in this and one of them is I can open up this back with my with my foot so let me see I get the little just the little spotlight there put my foot on it bring it back so cool so I've got plenty of room for all of my friends in here I've got a nice easy step up and then one of the things that's really great is if I'm gonna be on a road trip with my friends we've all got our own separate like points of interest music things like that that we all want on our phones we can all come in here and the buddy recognizes those things and displays them up here on this large screen in the backseat so that is going to help everyone have their own great personal roadtrip I'm pretty excited about the concept here I mean it's been teased for a really long time I know there's a lot more to learn about it so we really hope you guys have enjoyed this quick look at the Volkswagen but here at CES in 2016 stay tuned because we've got a lot more great coverage coming up right here