Robin Oomkes wrote:

> Per,
>
> Are you also preparing yourself to go T4 one day, too? I wouldn't mind a
> Westfalia TDi... Or maybe I will wait for the T5.

To put it like this: I wouldn't exactly have anything against driving a TDI Syncro
:-) maybe a LWB with tinted windows and leather seats, Porsche alloys, Tornado red
paint etc. I like the T4 very much, although the Syncro isn't the off road vehicle
the T3 Syncro is :-(

> I was on a tour of the VW
> Hannover factory (hallowed ground, since that's where they built vanagons too)
> last summer, and the guide muttered something about 2001.

That is the year everybody on the German Bus Forum is talking about too.

>
>
> Do we think there will be a Westfalia version of that - considering Westfalia
> Werke has been bought by DaimlerChrysler?

Yes, why not? VW and DC already have a cooperation in the form of the LT/Sprinter
and Westfalia will still probably be a independent factory, even though DC owns
it.

PerL
87 Syncro 112i