Date:         Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:23:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Jorge Osorio <josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jorge Osorio <josorio@ATLAS.KENNESAW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: No more South African Vanagons :-(
In-Reply-To:  <20040105162757.11777.qmail@operamail.com>
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Well I recently came back from Rio de Janeiro and I'm happy to report that
the Kombis are going strong, I saw them zipping around town being used as
utility vehicles, for public transportation and even by the city's cleanup
crew. One day, as I was sitting in a kiosk by the beach sipping coconut
water a Kombi pulled off with three city workers, one got off, wiped down
a trash can while the other two sat in the kombi, then got back in and
drove off to the next job, he did this in the utmost calm and relaxed
manner, no rush..Guess keeping in with the VW way ;)

Rio and it's VW Utopia is only a distant memory -2F expected tonite.

Jorge

'85 Westy Weekender
Betsy a.k.a "Plan B"



On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Jaap Nauta wrote:

> This morning I had a look at the VW site in South Africa: they stopped making the the vanagon; the last one recently left the factory. See http://www.vw.co.za/models/bus/
>
> Maybe soon in Mexico or Brasil. They are still making the previous model bus (called nova Kombi). Take a look at http://www.vw.com.br/automoveis/kombi
>
> Happy Newyear/happy driving!
> Jaap
>
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