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Subject:Re: New beetle?
From:Sylvain B
Date:Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:40:50 -0500

Based on the vanagon? NO!!! based on the type 2!!! people would go crazy
about it... me first!  8)

Sylvain B�langer
Montr�al, Quebec
1.6l TD Westy

>From: Rusty Johnson <Roq8cyans@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: Roq8cyans@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: New beetle?
>Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:55:39 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/31/00 5:15:09 PM Mountain Standard Time,
>JKrevnov@AOL.COM writes:
>
><< Also, I think VW could have replaced the steering rack with a couple
>struts
>  and dropped the power package into the rear end, for the sake of
>tradition if
>  for no other reason.  Hey, but who am I to second guess an engineering
>  economist.
>   >>
>
>I'm holding out for VW to build a "New Bus", based on the Vanagon platform.
>(Which is still in production in South Africa.)  IMHO, it'd revive the
>entire
>market for minivans.  With the 4Motion AWD system added, it'd probably kill
>off the SUV craze too...
>
>Rusty J.
>Ogden, UT
>'80 Westy -- the Vanagon Valdiz

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