VW Vans in America

[teeboy]

As we all know you can't get new VW vans in the USA. Generally this isn't a bad thing as the Americans get some excellent reasonably priced vans from Ford and GM.

However one of the side effects is that there is no modern VW camper available in the US.

This is all down to a tit-for-tat Tax row between the US and Germany known as the Chicken Tax.

I came across this podcast which provided a very nice potted history of the tax:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episode-632-the-chicken-tax

Interesting stuff.

Tony