

| 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 >
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