Per Lindgren wrote:
>
> After some discussion of the names of different VW models, I decided to pick
> up an encyclopedia, and see what most of them means.
>
> Transporter: quite obvious, isn't it?
> Caravelle: (hist.) Small light fast ship, chiefly Spanish or Portuguese oh
>
Caravelle was used by Renault for a sports car model with a removable
hardtop in the mid to late sixties. I wonder how VW got to use it.