Additionally, all Vanagons sold in California in 1991 were labeled as a 1990
model due to new regulations required by Caleefornya for '91 models.  It was
VW's sneaky little way of getting around the rules.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Gerald Masar
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:50 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: How many Vanagons

The reason there were more Vanagons sold in the U.S. in 1990 vs. '88 & '89,
is that
was a year when VW tried to "buy it's way back into the market" as the VW
salesman put
it. This is also what they did with the Eurovan in 2001 or whatever year
they dropped
the price $5k and increased the HP. In late '89 I was looking at used
Westy's ('89's),
when I discovered I could buy a new '90 for about the same price. I did and
I am still
driving it.
Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: How many Vanagons
1987 -  9,401
> 1988 -  4,555
> 1989 -  4,466
> 1990 -  8,057 (vw had announced they PLANNED to sell 10,000 Vanagons
> that year)
> 1991 -  ?,???
> total 127,118+
>
>
> unca joel