thanks for posting this link.
nice to see VW is the 3rd largest auto maker in the world after GM and
Toyota.
You'd never know it here, as VW is pretty small in the US market,
numbers-wise.
231,000 cars total sold in the US in 2007 isn't very much at all.

Well I hope they do well.  Persoanlly, I just do not see any way to make a
quality product in the US with US workers..........and often the UAW Union
gets in .............Toyota is turning into GM .........with union workers
in their US plants now.   Quality just goes down. Toyota's are stil good,
but not the 'just will never die and so reliable it's boring' that they once
were, close still, but not like they once were quite.

I'm actually rather offended, as a consumer, that VW is hanging their badge
on what is really a Chrysler Van.
You know.............they *invented* a genre ..............and they should
stick with it !

I figured out what a Vanagon really is - it's a 'sporty not-quite-truck'
..........
good ground clearance, great versility .........even the boxy aspect is all
right.  Like an upright and proud all around do anything van.   Whether
hauling people, semi-off roading, camping, or hauling stuff.........does it
all.

THAT is what they should make.  Something that's not a 'me-too low to the
ground, soccer mom and grocery hauler' like this van that they will be
comong out with.
We shall see.
one thing for sure .........their products better get good fuel mileage !
why don't we start a letter campaign to VW of America explaining that we're
not interested in a soccer mom mini-van, but we'd go nuts over a modern ,
and NOT too modern ( ! ) , interpretation of the Vanagon.
scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:13 AM
Subject: VW's New Chattanooga Plant

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