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VWt Magazine is aimed at owners/enthusiast of the Volkswagen Transporter from the T4 model upwards. The magazine includes features about T4s and T5s, product reviews, road tests, shop tours, road trips, Transporter history and reader’s rides. VWt Magazine is all about reader value. Each issue has 100 pages jammed packed with everything anyone would ever need to know about T4s and T5s and costs just £3.95.

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TAKING THE ROUGH WITH THE SMOOTH • With an interior as opulent as a boutique hotel but the rugged practicality of a swamper-styled Transporter, Brown Bird & Co’s jacked up T6 is surely the ultimate getaway vehicle

Quite a journey! • From first car to wedding car, Luke Henley’s turned the T4 Panel Van he learnt to drive in from ugly duckling to something fit for a proper knees up in the 16 years he’s owned it

IDENTITY CRISIS? • Craig Cheetham is an LCV journalist who contributes to a number of modern van titles, as well as a classic car writer for a number of our sister titles. He’s just returned from the launch of the seventh-generation Transporter, with a somewhat different take on the all-new model…

FRESH PRODUCTS • Top gear for your Volkswagen...

ESCAPE ROOM • When he’s not dangling from a rope off a North Sea oil rig, Scott Smith loves nothing more than a road trip adventure, and his stealthy-looking T6 camper is the ultimate tool for a quick escape

Your world, your life... YOUR VANS • Ever dreamed about seeing your Van appear within these pages and getting your 15-minutes of fame? Make that dream a reality by submitting it to VWt (ian.cushway@kelsey.co.uk) and getting it in Your Vans. Whether it’s the finished article, still being built or just some photos of your adventures, we’d love to see it and share it. Let’s see those Vans!

LIGHT OF MY LIFE • Ian battles with French bureaucracy and ends up having to swap his headlamps

40 YEARS OF THE 4X4 • This year celebrates the 40th anniversary of VW’s first all-wheel-drive Transporter. Here’s how it came about and how it influenced the more recent 4Motion

Daisy the Welsh Dragon • A T5.1 camper or an Alfa Brera V6 3.2? No contest: all Adrian Ball had to do was upgrade a readymade posh-spec van with full camping interior before heading off into the wild blue yonder

VOLKSWORLD SHOW 2025 23 March South of England Showground • A change of venue proved a massive success for 2025’s season-opening VW extravaganza

EXTREME SUPREME • Low, practical and brimming with tech, Ian Millward’s T6 ticks oh so many boxes

SURF’S UP FAM • The sunshine didn’t bring the biggest swell but with sea, sun, sand and some surf – may the weekend commence!

SHOW SEASON SPECIAL BONUS SECTION • Finger’s crossed the sun’s shining and you’ve kept a few weekends clear on your calendar, so it’s time to sort your van and transform it from ‘bland’ to bloody marvellous!

6 KILLER SHOW MODS • Want your van to stand out from the crowd at the next Dub gathering or café meet? Whack ’em for six with these magical Transporter mods…

HOT RIMS FOR 2025 • The show season’s already landed, so here’s our hot wheel picks to help you smash it in the year ahead…

50 NIFTY MODS FOR UNDER £50-ISH • Don’t want to bust the budget on your bus? Ok, well, it’s probably too late for that but here are some neat additions you can do without extending the overdraft…

10 AWESOME DRIVE-AWAY AWNINGS • Unless you’re used to living in a shoebox, you’ll need an awning. Here’s why, a guide on what to buy and a look at what’s out there...

2025 Show Diary • So now your van’s prepped, hit the road and check out these top shows…