type44 hoods [bonnets for you english]

[Ameer Antar]

Hmm...I don't know what a double crease would look like, but I think that's 
the other thing I don't like about '86+ type44's [other than the 
headlights]. The earlier hood makes the car look a bit nicer I think. The 
later ones look to '80's', too boxy, although the car is pretty angular to 
begin with. Too bad they decided to only keep one hood style...just my opinion.

-ameer


At 12:18 AM 11/15/2000 , you wrote:
>Ameer Antar writes:
> > I saw a pic of a 200 and noticed that it didn't have lines in the hood. My
> > '84 5kT has lines that point toward the front of the car in the hood. Is
> > this something unique to early '84-'85 or what? Did I just not look 
> closely
> > enough? Thanks.
>
>[ US models only ]
>For 84 and 85, Audi used the same hood for the 5000S and 5000S turbo.
>For 86 and later, the 5000CS turbo (and turbo q) got a different hood.
>It still has lines, but is different (shallower double crease on each side,
>running the length of the hood instead of the single crease in a trapezoidal
>taper.  Presumably this is to achieve a better integration with the flatter
>one piece turbo headlights that was also introduced at that time.  The
>non-turbo cars continued with the "old" style hood.
>
>-Ti
>01 S4 2.7 biturbo (arriving within 2 weeks)
>96 A4 2.8 quattro (sold)
>84 5000S 2.1 turbo
>80 4000 2.0
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