Aw, c'mon, Vanogon is not that bad of a name. Pity poor Honda, who was stuck using the inverse version - Wagovan. Betcha don't see many of those around anymore. Of course, there are more Odysseys around than Vanagons... Wagovan is one of those words I could see Bevis cracking up on. Ron Antaki -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Grebneff Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:49 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Head ON Vanagon COLLISION pics
>>Looks like those listees have no idea what EXOTIC means. > >Similar to the way some of us have no idea what VANAGON means? Well, "exotic" has a definite meaning. It means "from elsewhere". That's all. "Vanagon" is a synthetic and (ugly) junk word, and basically meaningless... fortunately it was only used in North America for the T3 (why couldn't they have just called it Type 2 or Transporter??) and for the T4 in Japan. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand 64 (3) 473-8863 <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut -------------------------------------- A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? |
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