Whining noise under boost

[Phil Rose]

At 8:23 AM +0100 2/14/02, Eyvind Spangen wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:12:55 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Congratulations on your new aquisition!   I thought they didn't have the
>  >200q20v (type 44 chassis) in Europe. Or is that our UrS4 (C4 chassis)?
>
>It is the type 44. We had it from 1989 to 1991 here in Europe, so they
>are not that rare in Germany.

I wonder what "not that rare in Germany" actually means?  Is the
200/3B simply not quite _as_ rare (in Germany) as in the USA , or is
it considered to be not an uncommon model at at all ? The 3B
engine-production data (not vehicles) for all the years of production
(MY '89-91) is only about 8000 units--total. The USA received approx
1200 of the 200/3B vehicles (sedans+avants) in '91. That leaves--at
most--about 6000-7000 vehicles with 3B engines in the rest of the
entire universe (RS2 would account for some of that 3B production?)
So I'd expect that an Audi 200/3B  might actually be fairly "rare"
even in Germany. This is especially so if rarity is defined with
respect to its percentage of all the Audis available on the used-car
market, since Germany will have had far more total Audi sales than in
the USA in '89-'90. In fact the '91 200q20v represents a substantial
proportion of all 1991 Audis in the USA, since sales of all Audi
models that year were so pitifully small.

I assume that Audi sold the 200/3B combination in "other" countries
such as France, Italy, Spain...and also outside of Europe and USA?
IIRC, it was not available in Britain.

Phil
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Phil Rose				Rochester, NY
'91 200q	(130 Kmiles, Lago blue)
'91 200q   (57 Kmiles, Tornado red)
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