G'day all, On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Matthew Bulley wrote: > In a message dated 97-08-29 05:31:39 EDT, jpnicholls@LUCENT.COM writes: > > << The terms Vanagon and EuroVan are to my knowledge exclusively North > > American labels. They are unknown over here (in the old world). They > are > > genericly called 'Transporter'. The 8/9 seater versions are sometimes > > > labeled 'Bus' and the more luxerious versions 'Caravelle'. > > And in South Africa 'Microbus' and 'Kombi'. Are these the original > German names - Helmut? >> > Here in Australia we have the Transporter (I have a 2.4 deisel one) and the Caravelle. We used to have kombi but the import duties these attract are tose for a passenger car so they only import the plain van and the Caravelle. Reece, 81 Passat GLD 96 Transporter 2.4D |
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