Date:         Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:07:25 -0400
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From:         B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Mention of the Possible New MicroBus
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http://www.newschannel9.com/news/volkswagen_972759___article.html/money_grou
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I'm convinced they are going to start building the microbus concept once the
new plan is in. Even Katy from VW headquarters told me the concept was not
dead but would not elaborate.  VW probably doesn't want to tell us because
1) they may still not build it and 2) announcing a new van would probably
cut into current Routan sales. The 2 vans will actually be completely
different so actually if the Routan sales are good they could sell both vans
side by side.

Of course where does that leave Westfalia who wants to convert an American
van to a camper? Hmmm, do they start with Routan then re-tool for the bigger
and better Microbus, wait for the Microbus and forget the Routan,  hmmmm.

Bryan