>VW >hasn't sold the Transporter in the USA since 1973 or close to that since the >25% "chicken" tax started. Er... despite the idiotic naming used by VW in the US, the T3 "Vanagon" IS a Transporter. As are the Split & Bay... and the Bay was sold in the US until 1979, wasn't it? All Type 2s are Transporters; Caravelle, Vanagon etc are optionlevel -designations. T1= Split T2=Bay T4="Vanagon" T4="Eurovan" T5=?"Eurovan II" The "T" stands for Transporter, not Type. This last gets the English confused too... The Transporter (Type 2) is VW's light-truck line. The LT is not a Transporter, but VW's "big" truck line (MAN notwithstanding). > The only reason why the Dodge Sprinter is sold >in the USA is that it is made in the USA Of course Mercedes OWNS Chrysler, so can sell the Sprinter under any Chrysler badge it likes. |
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