>In a message dated 11/30/04 6:07:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes:
>
>>T4
>>was sold as Vanagon in Japan.
>>

>??? The van was sold in japan??

Indeed it was... gawd knows who'd be silly enough to buy one, with
the far superior Japanese large vans available.

>  What year and version was sold there?

That I couldn't tell you.

>BTW I sent the seller a detail list of why his listing was incorrect and
>today go a blank reply back.  Checked ebay and the listing is gone.

Good!

>That one also got me extremely irritated over the use of the vw logo on a
>very obviously not licensed commercial or hobbyist product.

I guess this is why VW has become nasty about ANYONE using the
logo... kneejerk reaction, though.

>
>so are you saying that there are Japanese market T4's with the name
>"Vanagon" in T4 font?????   any pics of this ???
>
>chris

Yes and unfortunately no. I did search "Vanagon" for used exports
from Japan... only T4s came up.

Yoshi? Are you lurking?
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut