Date:         Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:32:04 -0400
Reply-To:     Wesley Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Wesley Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Protest Volkswagen over copyright infringements
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <43543CF7.7050801@charter.net>
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I just checked, and www.volksaremad.com is an available domain name.
Someone should make a website with a petition of disloyalty to the
Volkswagen Corporation, in spite of the old cars that we still love.
I'm too busy to do it right now, but I'd chip in for the domain name,
and sign the petition....

Actually, if someone else gets together the money to register the domain
name, maybe I'll make the website...
what do people think?


-Wes

John Rodgers wrote:

> How many of us are on this list??? 100? 500? 1000?
>
> Would it not be at least an eyebrow lifter if in the VW Towers of Power
> they received a formal protest with the signatures of hundreds of
> vanagon owners on it??
>
> VW is making a colossal mistake in exercising this negative attitude
> about their name being associated with things. They could do so much,
> gain so much publicity, a lot of it free, for their products, if they
> connected themselves to things. Th could build a product loyalty that
> you wouldn't beleive. But are they doing that?? No. Instead they are
> digging themselves a hole. I for one, at this point, will never buy one
> of their new products. It will be American or Japanese next time. The
> Vanagon is from an era that has passed, and may eventually become
> supported entirely by the aftermarket folks, just like the old Beetles
> and Buses. A crappy corporate culture will permeate all the way down to
> the bottom, and eventually result in the erosion of the customer base.
> Those turkeys are really blowing it.
>
> My $0.02.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>