And.......for the first time in about 25 years they are calling what was the
Golf, the Rabbit, which is what it was originally called here, the first
front wheel drive water cooled vw little econ-boxes.  Now they're Rabbits
again like they should be called !

I think there's even a cute Rabbit logo on the back of the car. Saw one down
at my vw dealer today.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Andrew Grebneff
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:11 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: bus?

>On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>
>>The "Eurovan" was only called that in North America... in Japan IT
>>was the Vanagon.
>
>Yeah I believe it's still sold in Europe as the Caravel or something
>close to that name...
>
>Allan

The T4 "Eurovan" is out of production in Germany, though no doubt the
T5 comes with a Caravelle version. My 84 T3 is a Caravelle.

All VW vans (apart from the LT) are officially Transporters; names
like Caravelle or Kombi are grades. In some markets VW marketers for
some strange reason decided not to follow the official normal
names... witness Rabbit, Dasher, Quantum, Vanagon...
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
, Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads