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Re: [T3] The term Variant


I've also read that it was felt that 'Variant' was too similar to 'Valiant,'
as though there was any mistaking the two!

Andre

> The first occasion it was used was on the Type 3 estate (=station wagon).
> Squareback came in when they started exporting them to the States.  They
> couldn't call them station wagons as the Type 2 was called that.
>
> The name was applied because the body style was simply a variation on the
saloon
> (sedan) body.  They couldn't differentiate with the engine size as they
had done
> with the Beetle, 1200, 1300 so they named it instead.


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