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Date:         Wed, 6 Apr 1994 13:01:37 -0600 (CDT)
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From:         dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Subject:      Re: Kombi, Kombi, who's got the Kombi ... (differences)

]From vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu Wed Apr 6 12:50:32 1994 ]From: laird@cauchy.sosc.osshe.edu (Alan Laird) ] ]> Joel querries as to what what a Kombi is...

Actually, I think I started this whole mess with a question to Joel. Now that I've seen a whole slew of answers, I'm glad I did. It's become ob- vious that I'm not the only one confused. I don't know any more about what constitutes a Kombi now than I did at the start, but I now know I'm not alone in my ignorance.

]> I believe that Kombi is short for Kombination...at least in the ]> early busses, Kombi's were one step higher in the model range ]> than the plain, window-less delivery van. They had three windows ]> on either side of the passenger compartment, usually cloth seats ]> and trim. ]> ]> The idea for the kombi was that you could use it as a delivery vad ]> oops van during the week and use it as a family car on weekends. ] ] My manual for my old 72 westy showed the kombi as the step between ]the 7pass and the westy. It showed a van that had a rear seat that folded ]into a bed but, looked more like the regular seats than the westy rear ]seat. I always thought that it was a kombination of 7pass and camper.

This is as believeable as any other explanation I've seen, but it's con- tradictory to the earlier message that surmised that a Kombi was somehow LESS than a 7-passenger and closer to a bare van.

Does anyone REALLY know?

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