"tooling sent to the Americas for production."

This may happen!  Only it will be designed as "NEW"   I have a friend
who works for a big Aluminum co.   He had a  a customer looking to
design a new fuel efficient  taxi, and presented plan  that he claimed
looked just like his vanagon.

Mike Rouby wrote:

>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.
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>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)
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>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
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>Loren Busch wrote:
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>>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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