Date:         Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:44:23 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: My 'new' Dehler Syncro arrived HOME
Comments: To: Al and Sue Brase <albeeee@MCHSI.COM>
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On Dec 30, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Al and Sue Brase wrote:

>  it's just hard to
> envision a VW bus type vehicle being an acceptable establishment type
> ride!
> Good luck- it's a beauty!
> Al Brase
>
>
Al,

This sort of interior may have had a greater appeal, at least back when
it was created, than you suspect. From my work in Germany with German
clients I learned that Europeans in general and Germans in particular
were more likely to take off in a car for a meeting than to fly to it
like we do here, at least fifteen years ago--about the time the Dehler
was sold. Fast cars (generally), better roads and a smaller country
make it possible to do business from a vehicle, so there was or even
now is a market for a more genteel "executive interior" for the
traveling businessman. I also noticed that European towns had money to
buy stuff with but often didn't have a travel budget, so if you
marketed to them you had to do the visiting as well. The company I
worked for, a mapping company, bought a truck (camion) with expandable
sides to drive around and do presentations from, a bigger version of
the Dehler.

This might account for the not-so-rustic demeanor of what we think of
only as a camper.

Jim