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Subject:Re: My First Vanagon, a short story
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:32:11 +1200

>Hi Russel !
>
>I guess the correct German pronounciation should be
>.................................................
>Transporter
>or
>Caravelle
>
>Vanagon is what they are known as in US and UK and almost impossible for a
>German to say
>
>                            :-)
>
>For starters they pronounce V as an F so the correct name of our cars is
>Folks/vagen - peoples/car
>or for short
>fauvee    (VW)

Or, for its shortness, what it's called in Germany... T3. Or Type 25,
as the Englanders call it.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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