Date:         Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:07:36 -0500
Reply-To:     "David..M" <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
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From:         "David..M" <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
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Subject:      Caravelle
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Per Lindgren wrote:
>
> After some discussion of the names of different VW models, I decided to pick
> up an encyclopedia, and see what most of them means.
>
> Transporter: quite obvious, isn't it?
> Caravelle: (hist.) Small light fast ship, chiefly Spanish or Portuguese oh
>
Caravelle was used by Renault for a sports car model with a removable
hardtop in the mid to late sixties. I wonder how VW got to use it.

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