Date:         Wed, 6 Apr 1994 13:01:37 -0600 (CDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
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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