an observation about european cars vs the rest of the

[Larry C Leung]

You forgot Polo. And Rabbit, Quantum and Dasher were US names only. The
Passat name did bring up another non-windy name, the Savannah (a near
desert) which was the up-market Passat back in the US Quantum days. 

On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 18:33:16 +0200 Per Lindgren <lindgre at online.no>
writes:
>Most of them are, but not all of them. As we mentioned, names like 
>Eurovan,
>Sharan, Caravelle, Quantum, Dasher, Rabbit, Caddy and Corrado are not 
>known to
>be windy.
>
>PerL
>92 Cabrio 2.3E
>
>
>
>jim rose wrote:
>
>> i recall reading that all the veedub model names were after 
>prevailing winds
>> throuought the world - corrado, jetta, scirocco, and i think vento, 
>bora,
>> etc.. are all names of or types of winds. like golf (gulf)
>>
>> tho i'm not sure where the "eurovan" blows....
>>
>> jim
>>
>> >Golf is named after the German spelling of Gulf, the A1, A2, A3 and 
>A4
>> >series of hatchbacks were named after the Gulf Stream that blows 
>along
>> >the US East Coast.
>>
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