<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --></style><title>Re: Announcement: the BZ Shelf (NVC) Friday</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Sprinter Carib BZs don't have shelves, being wagons.</blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>But they could, couldn't they? It's your larger furniture pieces, like chesterfields, armoires, or four-poster beds, which wagons don't accommodate without considerable difficulty.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>It's Friday here... ao my posting was tongue-in-cheek. Toyota used the Sprinter name long before Mercedes. They are Corollas with external panel differences (1988-91 sedans were marketed in the US as Geo Storms & Geo something-else; the previous generation was sold there as Chevy Nova).</div> <div><br></div> <div>The Carib was the 4WD Corolla wagon sold from 1983to about 00, the 80s AE8x generation marketed in the US for some crazy reason as a "Tercel", the 2nd generation AE94/95as Corolla 4WD and 3rd (AE106) & 4th (AE111/112) not at all. Some had no differences to normal Corollas, others had different or partly different appearance (lights, hood, doorskins/side profile; fenders & doors would bolt-onto other variants, but profiles would not match and window frames might not be the same shape). The last version was 4WD (AE111) or FWD (AE112), or was it the other way round? In addition the AE100-series 4WD Corolla wagon remained in production alongside the AE111/112, and like it was generally what the Europeans would call a "sport wagon" but it didn't suffer from a short deck like other "sport wagons". The BZ label was used on both the AE10x Corolla and 11x Carib 4WD wagons.</div> <div><br></div> <div>You could put shelves in a Carib, but not a bed. The rear deck is shorter than in other Corolla wagons except in the E111/112, which was identical to the Corolla wagon.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Now, I DID carry a single bed in my 89 Corolla wagon once, and have slept in it several times...</div> <div><tt>-- </tt></div> <div>Andrew Grebneff<br> Dunedin<br> New Zealand<br> Fossil preparator</div> <div><i>Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut</i></div> <div><i>‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University</i></div> <div>"There is water at the bottom of the ocean" - Talking Heads</div> </body> </html> |
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