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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Successor to the Rabbit?
Message-ID: <1993@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 17:48:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  6 17:48:58 1984
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> I was amused by the reports that the Rabbit is being discontinued, to
> be replaced by the "Golf".

> When I bought my Rabbit in 1979, the brochure I got from the dealer pointed
> out that the same car was called a "Golf" in the rest of the world (except
> in South America, where is was called a "Caribe").

> What's in a name?  What is Volkswagen trying to pull?

What Volkswagen is trying to pull is the wool, over peoples' eyes.  The
Rabbit, supposedly, no longer is considered a top name, so they're trying
to convince people that the new car is totally new and the Rabbit is kaput.
The fact that in Europe, both the old car and the new car are called "Golf"
tends to indicate that the new car isn't quite as radically different as
VW might like people to think...

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy