Date:         Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:41:46 -0500
Reply-To:     Ed Stevens <ejstevens@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Ed Stevens <ejstevens@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Eurovan Westfalia
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On 3/24/99 1:41 PM ,Mark Gajewski typed
>
>I thought someone on the list mentioned that the EVC is done by Winnebago,
>but the MV weekender (if such a beast exists) is still being done by
Westfalia.
>From what I recall of the post, it mentioned that the pop-tops between the
>EVC and the MV Weekender are different (Winny's poptop vs. Westy's
> poptup).  Does this sound right?Mark
>
i have test driven all the 1999 Eurovan models.  The MV Weekender is by
far the hardest one to come by.  When I saw it in October I was told that
it was being sent to the southern US until spring.  perhaps it will be
coming north with the birds.  I saw it in Lebanon PA (near Hershey PA).

The EVC is indeed done by Winnebago-US on an extended version of the
Eurovan.  It lacks the Eurovans rear air conditioning system and its
large sliding windows.  Instead it had dinky (IMHO) RV type windows in
the back.  The kitchen is really very nice.  It is spacious,  Finally it
has enough power, but it is BIG.  The luggage rack has a tie bar system
that gives up some of the usable space up in the indentation.  Really
unimpressive.

The MV Weekender arrives "as is", I do not know who in Germany finishes
it.  It does have a somewhat different poptop than the EVC.  It has the
rear facing jumper seats, window screens and curtains, there is a small
refrigerator under the jump seat behind the driver.  I think the
Weekender pop-top ran to the front of the vehicle, no luggage rack.

VW dealers are not pushing the EV Weekender as it lists for over 36k and
you can easily pickup a camper for $33k.  So they argue against it.  I
though it was a great vehicle, but overpriced.

BTW we ended up buying a 1999 Honda Odyssey to go along with our 84
Wolfsberg Westfalia GL Camper (and '95 Volvo 850 Turbo).  At $23k it
seemed to make more sense to us.  We did not see enough in either the MV
Weekender or the Camper to make us (my sons and me; the wife wanted to
get down to just two cars very badly)  want to reduce our fleet to just a
Eurovan and the Volvo.

-peace
Ed Stevens
Valley Forge PA