Type 44 shorthand?

[Eric_R_Kissell at email.whirlpool.com]

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 "Elliot Rees" <elliot at excelonline.com> wrote:

[snip]
>By alienating folks like me by using 'code' such as referring 
>to a car as a 'Type 44' seems pointless.
[snip]

Now everyone calm down. Nobody is trying to alienate anyone. A 
lister was trying to be helpful, and this is the thanks he gets. 
Geesh. 

Nobody on this mailing list invented any codes for his Audi with 
the intent of keeping secrets from the less informed guys. The 
good folks at Audi invented these codes. Check your VIN. 
Referring to a Type 44 is actually more useful in many cases 
because our good European friends never had any car called a 
5000 because it was always a 100 or 200 over there, but we all 
got the Type 44 per the VIN.

For model code information please see the following:

http://metalab.unc.edu/tkan/audi/usmodels.html#type

http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/AudiJunk/model_codesM.html

Eric R. Kissell
1989 200q Avant, needs 1.8 bar upgrade
1986 5000cstq, 1.8 bar, k24, Fuchs at next tire change
1987 VW GTI 16v, 1984cc, Euro Intake Camshaft, Techtonics SS 
exhaust, etc.