

| Subject: | Re: VW's 'new' van |
| From: | Jeff Palmer |
| Date: | Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:04:23 -0500 |
Beautiful! I think you have to wait 15 years to bring them into Canada? Maybe by then I could afford a used one. If I sold my house. Who does the conversion if not Westfalia? Take a look for the 'Five Generations" graphic on the site. Cool. Jeff On 7-Oct-08, at 11:38 AM, Richard A Jones wrote: > If you are interested in what VW sells now in Europe (and SA) > as a camper--the California--look at their UK website: > http://www.volkswagen-vans.co.uk/california/ > It looks very much like an "updated" Vanagon Westy design. > Maybe better. You can get 4-motion and a TDI engine. > Of course it doesn't have the clearance of a Vanagon, but > it looks a lot nicer than what they did with the Eurovan. > > This is VW, of course, not Westfalia.... In Europe, at least > until recently, you could take your vehicle to Westfalia and > have them do pretty much what you wanted. I talked with the > owner (a climbing guide) and inspected his Vanagon Syncro in > Cortina, Italy, a while back. The closet/bed/water tank > looked the same as our. Different stove/fridge--bigger fridge. > Double-walled plastic windows all around for winter. He > had started with a Syncro delivery van and had them do it all. > > Richard
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