Date:         Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:46:47 -0400
Reply-To:     george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: T6 camper debuts
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  Oops, T4s.  I really do know better, and also that the plural of Astro is
Astros. :-)

  Mercifully, the Routan was put out of its misery last year.  Talk about
bogus marketing,  VWOA managed to find another spectacular way to spell
fail, beginning with the letter R, and ending with N.


On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> George,
>
> The present minivan being marketed in NA is built by Chrysler and badged
> as a VW.  It is not the T5.
>
> On 15-Jun-2015, at 09:16, george jannini wrote:
>
> > Simply put, VWOA doesn't seem to have the first clue, or care to market a
> > van.  How many T5s sold here vs Astroes?  Did you ever see an
> advertisement
> > for one?
> >
> > G
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The tax is on Commercial Vans (Chicken Tax), not passenger vans.  That's
> >> why Ford imports the Transit from Turkey with seats and windows to get
> >> around that.  When they get here, Ford throws away the seats and glass
> and
> >> installs panels in the window openings on the side to make it a
> commercial
> >> van - still cheaper than paying the tax.
> >>
> >> Jim Thompson
> >> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> >> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> >> Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012
> >> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> >> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> >> Find me on Facebook:
> >> http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Thompson/100000710343835
> >> ***********************************
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Help me remember all the reasons that VW doesn't sell these in the U.S.
> >> I
> >>> know one claimed reason is that we have a tax on imported passenger
> vans.
> >>> Other makers build vehicles here.  Why not VW?
> >>> ---- Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> >>>> First I've seen of this one.  Be nice if we got it but we all know the
> >>> chances of that.
> >>>>
> >>
> http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/13/vw-california-t6-camper-van-official/
> >>>> Stephen
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> David McNeely
> >>>
> >>
>
>