As a bonus While checking my dates I learned something neat about the type2(bus). It has exactly the same wheelbase as the type1(bug). It literally started out as "What if we put a cab over van body on a volkswagon"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minivan#Predecessors
It's definitely true that it was the VW's breakout success in the US which - on top of inspiring the Chicken Tax - cued a full lineup of competition from all of the Big 3 (two from Chevy!).
Because Wikipedia overlooks it in that section, here's the Dodge offering from that period:
That’d be more impressive if the Nomad II came before the 1970’s Volvo 240 wagons, which were basically boxier 940s / Nomad II’s.
The British Morris J was a little earlier if I think