Not so with my Vanagon, everyone loves it and recognizes it as a VW Bus/camper, young kids included. Everyone is usually surprised when I tell them it's a 1985 model, always saying they didn't know they were still made in 1985. Jeff

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> oh yes...

> other drivers and truckers used to toot their horn to say Hi when I drive
> my Bay...

> not anymore when I drive my vanagon, never... they blast their horn to get
> me out of their way because I am slow...

> I would say that vanagon had lost the "cachet" - and also the tolerance of
> other drivers on the freeways....