It's bad enough that folk conflate the Vanagon with the '60s splittie --
the iconic hippie bus, but calling a van a bug?

It's madness, pure madness, I tell you.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 11/20/2015 10:21 AM, Larry Alofs wrote:
> Twice in the past couple of months I have heard a vanagon referred to as a
> "Bug".  As in "Nice Bug!" or "What are you going to do with those two Bugs
> parked out back?"
>
> I was someewhat taken aback, but did not object.  Is this common usage?
> Maybe only here in the Midwest?
>
> Larry A.
>