Re: [VW-A3-2L] new VW pick up ???

["Jamie Ray" <vw2sho@hotmail.com>]

A few years back, I was reading a press clip booklet at my local very small 
VW dealer here in Canada, and it had a pic of a VW truck they apparently had 
or experimented with in Europe, it looked much like the Toyota 4Runnner 
pickup, chrome rims, chrome brushguard,chrome side steps,chrome roll bars 
etc. It looked really cool and by far nothing like a prototype.The thing 
that looked really weird to see was a VW emblem on the front of something 
like that! I am going to try to dig up the pic to post, but I doubt he still 
has it around.
BTW, just some interesting info, I live in the province of Ontario, and this 
dealer, "Lang Motors" is in a little tiny village on the Trans Canada 
highway called Wabigoon, and is the oldest dealer in Canada. No showroom,few 
cars, yet one helluva lot of experience and knowledge under his belt.Anyone 
ever been through this part of Ontario? This is about halfway between 
Winnipeg Manitoba and Thunder Bay Ontario. Thunder Bay is about 1.5 hours 
from the Minnesota/Canada border crossing.


>From: "Chris Warren" <tofer@mindspring.com>
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>Subject: [VW-A3-2L] new VW pick up ???
>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:47:46 -0800
>
>From: "Chris Warren" <tofer@mindspring.com>
>
>I found this last nite in the Detroit news about a VW pick up they are
>considering....
>DETROIT -- The pickup is going European.
>
>In a move signaling grander ambitions, Volkswagen AG unveiled its AAC
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>concept vehicle Monday at the North American International Auto Show at 
>Cobo
>
>Center. The V-10 diesel-powered vehicle, described as the interplay of
>European
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>engineering and American feeling, leans heavily on the posh and powerful
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>attributes increasingly common for the once-plebian automaker.
>
>But don't expect the father of the Beetle, never one to shy from a
>
>competitive fight under Chairman Ferdinand Piech, to take on truck giants
>General
>
>Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. as part of its next assault on the U.S.
>market.
>
>"It would be naive to go there," said Jens Neumann, chairman of VW's North
>
>American region and member of the parent company's management board. "This
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>is not digging into their territory. This is picking up on our own market.
>We also
>
>have an audience of active lifestyle people who would like a little more
>room."
>
>Instead, Volkswagen -- the best-selling European brand in the United
>States --
>
>intends to attack the Big Three dominance with its own sport-utility
>vehicle, a joint
>
>venture with Porsche AG that is expected hit showrooms in 2002.
>
>VW, Europe's largest automaker, sold 554,009 VW and Audi cars in North
>
>America last year, a 30-percent increase over the year before. Neumann said
>VW
>
>expects to sell 600,000 cars here next year, but insisted that "the time 
>has
>not
>
>come" to craft plans to build a new assembly plant in the United States or
>Canada
>
>to satisfy demand.
>
>http://www.detnews.com/2000/autoshow/0001/11/01110064.htm
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>
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