With the South African factory having finally stopped producing the Vanagon, you may have a case in getting the tooling sent to the Americas for production.

Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM> wrote:  I agree with your last line...that's why I've thought about lobbying VW to re-open the vanagon assembly line. Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

John Rodgers wrote: When I first saw Chrysler "mini-van" product I predicted it would change
the vehicle market place. It did. It filled a niche that needed filling,
and where there was no product to meet the demand. It became hugely
successful for it's type, primarily because for the time being there was
no competition. Iacocca did a good thing back then. However, today,
Iacocco's van has regressed to a socker-mom station wagon type. In my
view the only mini van out there now that resembles a "Van" and
maintains that utility in that size vehicle is the Chevy/GMC mini-van -
the Astro, and the like, and they don;t have the utility of the Vanagon.
Nothing has really adequately replaced the Vanagon in my book.

Regrards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Loren Busch wrote:
> RE: Invention of the 'mini van'
> The concept, first presented to the American market in the Dodge Caravan,
> was conceived and designed at Ford by Lee Iacocca and his team. Ford
> refused to produce it. When Iacocca went to Chrysler, he built it and
> the
> rest is history. Some have said that it was one of the reasons
> Iacocca left
> Ford.
>
>

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