Here's another one:
My Audi A6 esate is called "Avant".
Cheers,
Hans
'71 BGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
To: "Farlane Macfarlane" <n5bgy@sbcglobal.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: Roadsters, Tourers, and Station Wagons...
> Farlane Macfarlane <n5bgy@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > The words may not have started as interchangable.
> > But they probably are
> > now.
>
> Yeah, probably true...maybe we should call all
> non-MG-convertibles "cabriolets"?
>
> > Then again, other companies call Station Wagons,
> > Tourers. Including,
> > what do you know, MG with the ZT-T
>
> Well...some earlier British "station wagons" (Anglias,
> Cortinas, etc.) were "Estate Saloons" I believe, and
> VW called the Type 3 and 4 wagons "Variants", so go
> figure!
>
> They should have called the ZT-T a 'shooting brake' - that is my favorite
Engllish automotive term.... Still not sure how they came up with that one!
>
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> Dan
> The Garden State
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> '65 MGB Tourer Project - Yep, still is....
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