Agreed.  Was checking a Honda Element today.  Rubber floors, boxy,
versatile.  You could throw a mattress in there and sleep.  I think
there is  even a Poptop conversion kit for those things.
The new Beetle worked - VW seems never to miss an opportunity to miss
an opportunity here in the US.

On 7/27/08, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>> http://www.star-telegram.com/102/story/785205.html
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>> Pete
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