Re: [T3] French names Type 3

["Herman Haustein" <haustein@netvision.net.il>]

Try explaining a T34!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Seront <serontb@wanadoo.fr>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: ŽŒ’ ŽŽ 10 ”¿› 2000 17:12
Subject: [T3] French names Type 3


>>From: Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>
>>> PS: c*x stands for cox or coccinelle.
>>
>> ...et "coccinelle" veut dire "beetle" ;)
>>
>> Comment dit-on "Squareback" "Fastback" et "Notchback" en francais?
>>
>
>The Squareback (by far the most common one) is known as "Variant" in Europe
>as you know, same in French.
>
>Fastback and Notchback are unknown foreign language terms in France (except
>from the VW crowd).
>Notchbacks were mainly sold as " VW 1500", Fastbacks as "VW 1600" or "VW
>1600 L", and that's what the collective memory remember.
>
>When you try to describe the car to someone you need to start with :
>
>me : "you know, it's like the Variant (you remember the Variant ?, the
>"station wagon version" of the beetle!), ok but mine is a sedan"
>folk : "Ah yes, the 1600, that was a nice car", => guy refering to the
>Fastback
>me : " Yes, you're close, but mine is the "3 volumes" style, the back trunk
>is horizontal at an angle with the rear window, you remember?"
>folk : "wasn't that the early model, the 1500 ? ", => guy already knows a
>lot about aicooled VW's.
>Then you've got to explain him that the notchback did exist as a 1600 (!),
>up to 1973 (!) (for reference the golf started in 1974), and you kill him
>for sure by showing the OEM electronic fuel injection, :-).
>
>Ordinary comments about the car are "isn't that an early Skoda, or Lada ?
>", :-(. Even worse: "I recognized the engine's noise, it's a Trabant,
>.......".
>
>Bernard.
>
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