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Date:         Mon, 11 May 1998 10:22:08 -0400
Reply-To:     Don Gibbons <dgibbons@PRESRAY.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Don Gibbons <dgibbons@PRESRAY.COM>
Subject:      New beetle name
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com, type2@type2.com
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Considering the treatment of us by VW and the distaste of the name "New beetle"
what about "Water bug" as a grass roots renaming for VW's car they should have
made in 76 after they killed the REAL beetle. After all at first the beetle was
just a VW type 1, the public named it the beetle.




Pawling NY


Cars I have: 93 Eurovan MV           Cars I had: 89 GTi 16v
                  75 Westy                                    87 Syncro
                  73 Super                                     83 Rabbit GTi
                                                                    82 Vanagon
Diesel (w 83 GTi engine)
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