What are you saying? That there might be an actual rational basis for
things VW did? Many don't cotton to that kind of talk around here.

VW made T3 variations far beyond what we got here in any given year. Of
course they had various items left in inventory as T3 production was
winding down and as the parts supply chain was ramping up for the new
T4. It would be reasonable to use up existing parts by combining them in
whatever ways were deemed suitable as well as narrowing any remaining
parts production diversity to lower common denominators. The T3 was
always primarily a commercial vehicle platform. Our market was the big
exception. At the end of production we got more of the items that were
standard in the no frills commercial versions.

Mark

Matt Drew wrote:
> Maybe they were getting to the end of the production run and realized that
> they had a surplus of SOME parts, and a deficit of others . . .  :-)
>
> Just a thought.
>
> -D
>
>
>
>   It was kinda stupid.  They stripped down a Vanagon giving you the rubber
>
>> mats instead of carpet and the old metal dash board instead of the foam one
>> (how much money are we saving here a hundred or less?).  It had the black
>> metal front and rear bumpers instead of the fiberglass ones that all of the
>> 89-91 Vanagons normally had and no side cladding.  If it were stripped down
>> then there would be some sense to it.  But this one had A/C, power steering,
>> power mirrors, power door locks, and power windows as well.  The rear seat
>> turns into a bed (of scratchy wool material).  It makes you wonder who would
>> order such a stripped down model and then add all of the extras.
>>
>
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