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Subject:Re: Nice Video on the Cancelled MicroBus
From:Peter T. Owsianowski
Date:Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:11:12 -0500

You're welcome, Jeff:

Sherrie, your neighbor at Bus Boo (Really nice orange '73 Westy) said to say
hello to you and Patty and sorry she will miss you at Bus BRR.  I was giving
her directions to Pokagon.

We will miss you too!

On 2/4/08, Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It maybe could have used a few changes but I was soo excited to see these
> come out. It does seem a bit small and I would prefer they scaled back on
> the video screens and stuff like that (some differently styled front and
> rearlights would have been nice too) but I always thought it was a good
> start.
>
> Maybe it would have been too expensive and there wasn't enough of a market
> but how I wish they would do something similar.
>
> Thanks for posting the video Pete.
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 7:49 PM, BJ Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:
>
> > The first problem with that new MicroBus was VW said they could not
> built
> > it
> > for less than $35K back in '01. That's probably closer to 40K+ now at
> > least.
> > Second, it was only the US that showed enthusiasm for it, Europe, which
> > has
> > plenty of VW models to choose from, showed no interest. On top of all
> > that,
> > if you look really close at that thing it's pretty darn small. The back
> > seats are against the rear window. There is no storage space in there.
> >
> > As "cute" as it is I don't think I would have ran out and bought one.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> '90 Carat (Grover)
> '86 (We call this one Parts)
> '85 GL (Preparing to move to a new Home)
> '78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus
>