The new T6 will arrive at dealerships and camper van conversion workshops with a host of styling, equipment and technology upgrades.

Volkswagen swears that the new T series van is sculpted to look as if it's a single-piece body, whittled away from a solid block of material. We simply don't see it no matter how hard we squint. VW cripples its own sell job by pasting the above photo in the middle of its press release. The two-tone paint job of the new T6 works against any semblance of single-piece look, as does setting it next to the clean, hoodless body of the classic Splitty.

What we do see is an extremely modest revision of the T5 design that includes some new hood styling and sharper lines and edges throughout. It feels more like a light mid-cycle refresh than an all-new generation, but as Volkswagen explains, the T series is a classic design that it modernizes with caution. Extreme caution, from the looks of the T6.