Jim, I've never heard that analysis, but it is certainly more creative
than what I've always thought, that its just a combination of "van"
and "station wagon" (the official American name of the original VW
bus....)

I actually quite like that.

Garrick

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:22:17 -0600, Jim Felder <felder@knology.net> wrote:
> >
> > The vanagon name is an interesting one, anybody with some good insight
> > on
> > how vw came up with it?
> >
> I always figured it was to create a name for a unique shape, like
> pentagon, octagon... vanagon. It does have a distinctive shape, and it
> is rather rectilinear.
>
> Vanagon = dimensional locomotive solid with parallel opposite sides,
> the volume of various liquids required to fill it being inversely
> proportional to the amount of money spent on it divided by time spent
> underneath it minus parts scrounged for it.
>
> Don't think outside the box, think under it.
>
> Jim
>

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Garrick, Queens, NY
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