I was always somewhat amused by the fact VW always called the Transporters
"one-ton" vehicles.  There is not much correlation to US one-ton vehicles --
my LandCruiser is a half-tonner, and is built much more massively (and
gets 10mpg...).

I was reminded of the oddness of ratings like this when I opened up my
Sun computer to find out what is amiss with the power supply after many
power outages yesterday.  The Sun has the power-supply-from-hell, but it is
only rated at 350 watts -- common enough rating in tower PC's.  The thing
that reminded me of the VW was all the German writing inside the supply --
it turns out to be an Austrian power supply.

I guess that their computer parts are conservatively rated, and their vans
rather optimistically rated.

Malcolm