I personally definitely can not say 'vanagons are still Buses'
.............because :

Buses, as in school buses are roundier, like Bay Buses are, Vanagons are
boxy.

Chassis and development wise....................vanagons are a whole fresh
sheet of paper, where 'Buses' are a continuation of one concept from the
beginning of  'VW Bus'.   Except for the rear engine location being the
same, Vanagons are as different from VW Buses as Eurovans are different from
Vanagons, or close to. 
  I'm thinking  about the suspension and steering systems for example.
'trailing arms with torsion bars' dates from the 40's.  Vanagons have coil
springs, they have rack and pinion steering, most of them have 'real
heaters' etc.

Thirdly. Buses were named and called 'VW Bus', and vanagons are named and
called vanagons. 
Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Mike Collum
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: bus?

Certainly not to me but then you, no doubt, read my post.  They're still
buses!

So, "Happy Busin'", Ken.  :) (and all of us for that matter)

Mike

Ken & Sue wrote:
> Is it taken as an offense if you said, Happy Bussin to Vanagon owners?
>
> Kenny Rogers
>