Date:         Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:45:11 PDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Shawn Wright" <SW@smus.bc.ca>
Subject:      Re: VW Customer Relations & reality check

On  9 Jul 96 at 17:08, Malcolm Holser wrote:

> last time I was at the local dealer, the Winnebagos were still there.  They
> are built on the longer EuroVan chassis.  The other local dealers *do not*
> sell them (there are several dealers in the San Jose area).  The dealer in
> Palo Alto seemed pretty unhappy with VW about this.  It appears that the
> dealers must make arrangements with Winnebago as well as VW, and they are
> limited to one dealer in an area.  The Winny conversions are not cheap
> ($35k?) but they look much more like the old Vanagon Westfalia than the
> pictures I've seen of the *real* Westfalia conversions, and are probably
> somewhat cheaper that the imported version would be.  The EuroVan was
Although the longer wheelbase is great, I think the Winnie top looks 
cheap compared to the EV Westy top. It just doesn't look like it was 
fitted to the roof well. When the Winnie first appeared, they were 
*more* money than the Westy, although this was a '93 vs a '94 I 
guess. Both were in the $ 42- 45k CDN range. I looked at them side by 
side and the Winnie just looked like a copy of the Westy. I had to 
wonder how the materials would hold up though. I *know* the Westy's 
are well built, but the Winnie is unknown... Not that it matters much 
since I won't pay $45K anyway...
Shawn
'88 Westy 332k (Kyra)
'85 Jetta TD 350k (Jenni)