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Subject:Re: Better Mileage Anyone? (without going ala Lilley)
From:Bill Davidson
Date:Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:53:08 -0700

> Overseas the Transporters are referred as T1, T2, T3, T4 depending on the
> body style, and that is what you're used to.  In the U.S. we refer to the
> Beetle as the Type 1, or T1 for short, T2 is the Bus, either split-window
or
> the bay-window, T3 is the Notchback, Squareback and Fastback, and the T4
is
> the 411/412.  The T1 engine is the Beetle motor, the T3 is the 'pancake'
> Squareback motor, and the T4 is the 411/412, Porsche 914-4, and the
> Bay-window bus motor.  So you have the T4 motor in the T2 and the Vanagon
> which is known to others as a T3, but the T3 is know as the Squareback.
> This is all confusing as hell, but I just play along.

All this talk is enough to get a guy 'T'ed off ! :)
Bill