RS2

[Pantelis Giamarellos]

>
>Take a look at the 'Chassis Number' pages.
>
>Broadly, production spans a single calendar year.  The numbers logged
>for MY1996 are highly suspsicious - they look like the spacing used in
>some early ur-quattro years.  '250 a month' is much too much like a
>round number for me.
>
>Note especially the overlap between the 1995 and 1996 model year
>production dates.  I've not seen this before.
>


Phil Hi,

To be franc I haven't looked at the chassis number pages (by the way which
key to I press for that on the FA)

But if you divide the amount of RS2s made (around 2.800 IIRC) by the 250
(true and very round number) ones made per month you get .........

11.2 months. Which is a year of production.

But maybe there is an explanation.

AUDI has no left over chassis of the 80/90 Avant. It is "not available"
spare part item in the FA.

It is common knowledge that the RS2 was assembled by PORSCHE (in fact on the
production line which has previously assembled the Merc 500E).

So most probably AUDI has sent the whole batch of 80/90 Avant chassis to
PORSCHE (therefore the chassis got a number when produced) and then PORSCHE
assembled them taking their time. I think a specialized limited production
model (with wide use of manual input) takes considerably more time to be
assembled so this may have created the gap into production dates.

Just a guessing though.

Take care
Pantelis

P.S. IIRC a lot of items on my car have 1993, 1994 and 1995 production date
stamps on them.
The previous owner of the car has told me that it was a 1994 model but
according to the AUDI spare parts guy it was in fact a 1995 model year one.