Date:         Tue, 29 Nov 1994 09:01:40 -0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         tauxejd@ornl.gov (John Tauxe)
Subject:      12 year model cycle

Hello, all you VW nuts.

I'm new to this list, and have been amused by all this talk about air
conditioning and refrigerators... Spare me!  :)  I have a 76 Westfalia (now
in TN) which I drove around Texas for nigh ten years (even to big Bend Nat'l
Park, where I did a lot of impromptu repairs) with no AC or fridge.  No
problem.  

Anyway, I noticed something else that you folks probably already know, since
it seemed so obvious.  In the list of models, each was produced for 12
years, it seems.  Is this a coincidence, or is it part of a Master VW Plan
that just when they get the bugs (no pun intended) worked out they
completely redesign the vehicle?  Do we anticipate that 2003 will be the
last year ofthe Eurovan?

:  56 Microbus    1    68 Bus    4    80 Vanagon    8    92 Eurovan    1
:  57 Microbus    0    69 Bus    5    81 Vanagon   12    93 Eurovan    8
:  58 Microbus    0    70 Bus    8    82 Vanagon   16    94 Eurovan    0
:  59 Microbus    4    71 Bus   14    83 Vanagon    3    95 Eurovan    1
:  60 Microbus    2    72 Bus   10    84 Vanagon   10
:  61 Microbus    2    73 Bus   11    85 Vanagon   18
:  62 Microbus    2    74 Bus    5    86 Vanagon    7
:  63 Microbus    1    75 Bus    4    87 Vanagon   12
:  64 Microbus    4    76 Bus    6    88 Vanagon    3
:  65 Microbus    1    77 Bus    4    89 Vanagon    5
:  66 Microbus    8    78 Bus   10    90 Vanagon    9
:  67 Microbus    6    79 Bus    5    91 Vanagon    5

BTW, has anyone seen the Winnebago camper conversion for the Eurovan yet?
   John Tauxe     tauxejd@ornl.gov     Oak Ridge National Laboratory