Date:         Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:56:47 +0200
Reply-To:     Calle Fallberg <calle.fallberg@TELIA.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Calle Fallberg <calle.fallberg@TELIA.COM>
Subject:      Re: Its NOT a mini-van!
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Oh, but itīs the same both ways !
And maybe GM had already got the rights to the name,
we got first Pontiac and later Chevrolet TransSport which I believe was sold
under different names in the US.......
Similar to Chrysler Voyager in size and apperance....
If I donīt remember it all wrong you could buy the very same GM car as Olds
Silhouette too

Calle
-88 Transporter ( VW that is..)
Mullhyttan, Sweden

> Why is it that automobile manufacturers feel they need to come up with
> entirely new names for vehicles for multiple english-speaking countries?
> None of those models are even remotely familiar to me here in the US! On
> that note, why "Vanagon"? Was "Transporter" not cutesy enough for VW of
> America? Does everything sold in the US have to be renamed because
> arrogant/obnoxious US ad agencies always think they can do better?
>
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>