Date:         Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:44:15 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: bus?
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>I took my 83 GL Diesel to the Ohio DMV to register it.
>They punched the vin into the computer, and I didn't pay much attention.
>After I got home, and read the registration card.
>It seems, I now own a "STATION WAGON"

The bonehead who imported my 84 Caravelle GL from Australia
registered is as "Bus S". To get this crap straightened out I need
proof from an agent or the manufacturer... so it can stay the way it
is!

>Technically they're correct. In fact, according to both Volkswagen and the
>U.S. Government, we're all driving station wagons. VW has legally classified
>the Bus and Vanagon as station wagons in the U.S. for the last 40 years or
>so, to skirt the 25% U.S. import tax imposed on foreign made trucks.

A van is not a stationwagon, no matter what the law says. Of coures
there are vehicles which are intermediate between vans and wagons...
or even wagons that are vans (no rear seats, extended deck) like my
Corolla was.

--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads