If you've ever seen the 1987 Dealer Video on the Vanagon.com site, you would
hear the narrator, Chris Economakie pronounce it :  "Van-ah-gone"

Pete
'87 Westy
"Joe's Van"

> So... I have been pronouncing it wrong all these years.  I have always said
> "van-ah-gone" as in the doctor tells you to open up and say ahhhhh - but if
> the last part of the word is wagon, then it would be correctly said
> "van-eh-gone"  as is most Canadian's favourite word... eh!  - I knew there
> was a Canadian connection somewhere!  :-)