Based on the vanagon? NO!!! based on the type 2!!! people would go crazy about it... me first! 8) Sylvain Bélanger Montréal, Quebec 1.6l TD Westy
>From: Rusty Johnson <Roq8cyans@AOL.COM> >Reply-To: Roq8cyans@AOL.COM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: New beetle? >Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:55:39 EST > >In a message dated 12/31/00 5:15:09 PM Mountain Standard Time, >JKrevnov@AOL.COM writes: > ><< Also, I think VW could have replaced the steering rack with a couple >struts > and dropped the power package into the rear end, for the sake of >tradition if > for no other reason. Hey, but who am I to second guess an engineering > economist. > >> > >I'm holding out for VW to build a "New Bus", based on the Vanagon platform. >(Which is still in production in South Africa.) IMHO, it'd revive the >entire >market for minivans. With the 4Motion AWD system added, it'd probably kill >off the SUV craze too... > >Rusty J. >Ogden, UT >'80 Westy -- the Vanagon Valdiz _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. |
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