

| Subject: | Re: why no VW trucks/vans |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:49:03 +1300 |
>but it ain't a bus. :( they used to make a bus about the size of a >vanagon, called the MB-100. even looked like the vanagon. engine in >front, between the front seats, though. As far as I am aware the MB100/MB140 is still made. It's Korean, and the only Mercedes parts in it may well be the drivetrain... I think the body may be Ssangyong-designed. It is FWD (yuk!) and has a live rear axle... shades of the Sprinter's direct ancestor, which was made out of corrugated iron & has a beam FRONT axle... Mercedes at the forefront of technology, as usual! -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE
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