Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:38:02 -0500
Reply-To:     Mark A Kippert <vanagon@KIPPERT.COM>
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From:         Mark A Kippert <vanagon@KIPPERT.COM>
Subject:      Re: "A Volkswagen expert on your iPhone"
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I bought the app for the heck of it, even though I already own a Vanagon (turns out it's a buyers guide). As a Vanagon owner part of the Introduction did rub me the wrong way just a bit as it reads:

"...whatever its suit of cloths, a Bus is still a Bus, and between the product of 1950 and 1979 (and to a lesser extent that of 1990) each is a Volkswagen and built in a similar style." 

Our Vanagon is, less, of a Bus? Less, of a Volkswagen?

They also refer to the three generations of "widely recognized nicknames", the 'Splitties', 'Bay window' and "the unflattering title of 'Wedge'". 

Wedge?? I don't ever recall hearing a Vanagon called a Wedge. However as I got further into reading the app I realized it was written in the UK and most of the focus is on Europe. 

It's a neat little app (actually I'd call it a portable book), some nice pictures and videos, but if you already own a Bus, there's not much you're going to learn from it. Save your $3.99.


Mark K
1986 GL/2WD/4SPD



On Jan 17, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:

> Anybody see this?
> 
> It bills the app as an "Expert on your iPhone"
> 
> http://www.easier.com/64819-volkswagen-expert-iphone.html
> 
> The Richard Copping mentioned in the article has written many books on VW
> buses.
> 
> 
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "JoesVan"
> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com