Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:16:29 EDT From: Blbachman <Blbachman@AOL.COM> Subject: trivia question My logical mind says: T1 Transporter = split screen (to 1967) T2 Transporter = Bread Loaf/Bay Window (to 1979?) T3 Transporter = Vanagon (to 1991) T4 Transporter = Eurovan Yet I keep finding references to the Vanagon as a T2 Transporter. What gives? Mistake on someone else's part? -Blaine These designations are correct. The confusion stems from the fact that all T1, T2, T3's were designated by VW in the air-cooled days as Type II vehicles. Beginning with the third generation Type II, someone got the brilliant idea that they should give the North American version the cutesy name of "Vanagon," but in the rest of the great wide world it is still simply a Type II. With the advent of the fourth generation, VW dropped the Type II designation in favor of T4, or fourth generation Transporter. In keeping with the cutesy tradition, NA vehicles were called "EuroVan." This new moniker was then retroactively applied to the earlier Transporters, ergo T1, T2, and T3. To further confuse matters, some people use the designation T2 incorrectly to mean Type II, which in reality applies to all Transporters prior to the fourth generation. So, yes, the Yanks' Vanagon is a Type II, but only the second generation 1968-79 (so-called baywindows) are actually a T2. -Doug |
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