At 10:40 AM 7/30/98, Sam Scholten wrote: [snip] >However, you can't ignore the fact that our friends in Congress >slapped that sorry-ass 25% import duty on foreign trucks in 1971. Now, >I'm just as pro-labor as the next guy, but I think that the American >truck market is nationalistic enough to want to keep buying American >(trust me, folks) and thus, UAW had no worries about this. However, >the fraction of the population that comprises the Transporter's market >gets penalized... and European countries get pissed because they can't >sell their products here, and slap their own duties on U.S. products. > Hmmm...I could have sworn that the "ChickenTax" applied ONLY to commercial grade vehicles like cargo vans and trucks, NOT passenger vans. Nevertheless, VWs pricing of the EuroVan *IS* outrageous...but so is the prospect of replacing the powertrain in one of our Vanagons given the Eurospec conversion as an example. To consider committing to teh Eurospec conversion for my 90/91 Camper, I'd have to have the automatic transmission rebuilt, as well...I figure that the whole shebang could well reach $10K! Then I'd have a mechanically perfect(?) Vanagon Camper with O miles on the engine/transmission and 103K miles on everything else.
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