Well, yesterday I drove my DC down to San Jose. Very oddly, I passed another Transporter along Highway 101 in the very south end of SJ. This was a white Vanagon Singlecab, canvas and all. I am pretty sure I passed this same singlecab in the same spot almost a year ago. Strange. I also took a look and the current VW bus -- the VR6 EuroVan for 1998. I'm not too interested in an automatic (wife hates 'em more'n me!), so it was a quick look. The bus looked nice, but was listed at US$31,000. Maybe I have not looked at cars recently, so "sticker shock" was perhaps to be expected. But at $31,000 this is not the old bus for the masses, I think. VW seems to be selling a lot of the new Beetles at $18,000. I don't recall that the old busses were twice the price of the old Beetle, and the new beetle is not exactly the low-price leader that the old one was. $31k seemed a bit high to me -- and this for basically a standard bus. Oh, well. I'm glad the buses are back. I wish there were manuals and Syncros. I'd probably consider buying one (but then VW would probably be asking $50k...) Malcolm |
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