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hey it's Chris from the version I'm standing in front of the Volkswagen buddy which was unquestionably one of the most anticipated launches here at CES certainly in the automotive space and possibly across the entire show few reasons for that one it sort of evokes the microbus which is an iconic brand for Volkswagen it's up there with the beetle and the thing so this is sort of the modern reinterpretation of the microbus it's an electric vehicle well over 300 miles of claimed range the bunch of cool things about this car none of which are real none of which are in a production car today but might be eventually one is that you can just talk to this car you don't have to press a button to engage with the voice recognition so that's a lot like hey Siri or okay Google or Alexa they're using hey buddy they're also a bunch of screens in it and these are cool because they can connect to a bunch of smart home things they brought LG onstage they brought the maker of a smart doorbell so you can see who's at your door from your car the doors all of the doors on this thing automatically open and closed with a gesture you just swipe at it or if you don't want to swipe you don't feel like moving your hands you can talk to it you can say hey buddy open the door problem is it's not real but considering these the response is getting here tonight and the language that Volkswagen is using I am led to believe that some form of this car will be production eventually if nothing else the platform certainly will be they they're building a modular electric architecture that they can use on a number of different vehicles so that part will definitely make it to the factory floor it's just a question whether it'll look like a microbus that's it from Volkswagen here at CES 2016 of course we have plenty more CES coverage coming later this week so stay tuned for that and subscribe to us on youtube we're at the birds