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Subject:Two seater. Was: Saw the weirdest Vanagon for sale today...
From:Martin Jagersand
Date:Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:51:36 -0400

> Two seater as in only a driver and passanger seat came from the factory.

In Europe you can get bare "transporters" both with and without
windows. Then you can equip them yourself.

Reason?
For example in Denmark tax is 200% on top of price for a private
passengner car or van. Tax is "only" 100% for a bare transporter
registered for use in a business. This stems excessive private
consumption (while the Danes drive nearly as many miles (km's!)
per year as north americans, they do it smaller, more sensible economical
cars.  Per year the average american uses twice as much gasoline to drive the
same distance as the average west European. Total consumption
of gasoline for private cars/trucks/SUV's in the USA exceeds 100 billion
gallons. That is 4 times as much as all other means of land transport
combined (eg. all truck shipping, trains, busses combined).

/Martin
--
Cannondale touring bike. Daily commute
Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel, 40mpg, weekly shopping.
Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel, 29mpg, Weekend and holiday trips.

New and used parts for sale, gas and Diesel:

    http://www.cs.yale.edu/~jag/vw/forsale.html

Martin Jagersand                 email: jagersand@cs.jhu.edu
Vision & Robotics lab, CS Dept          jag@cs.yale.edu
Johns Hopkins University         WWW:   www.cs.jhu.edu/~jager

        Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page:
          WWW: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw
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