20 years of the quattro, Ingolstadt

[Peter Berrevoets]

Definitely drooling Tom!! Hope you have a speedy recovery from your trip, I
look forward to seeing the pics - as always anything 200/T44 related is
greatly appreciated. Details on the Trans Am car would be very nice, as
would any information regarding the Taladega record setting 200 / 200mph
car.

Lucky man!

Cheers

Peter
1990 200TQ

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Tom Nas
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 5:43 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: 20 years of the quattro, Ingolstadt


Hi all,

Just downloading my mail and sipping a cold beer after returning home 15
minutes ago, straight from Ingolstadt.

WOW! When Phil Payne said that this would be a once-in-a-lifetime trip, he
wasn't kidding! Even Audi AG didn't expect the turnout to be this large-
there were supposed to be around 120 UrQs and some 400 people. The count
turned out to be 650 people and 270 UrQs!

A full report of the trip made by us- four guys from The Netherlands in an
'85 UrQ and an '85 200 Avant quattro is forthcoming (we plan to put it
online, together with a lot of the incredible amount of pictures we've
taken).

Here's a couple of tidbits to make you guys drool:
About eight or nine Sport Quattros were attending, and two Treser Quattro
Roadsters. The MTM S1 was there, and Audi took Michele Mouton's A2, Walter
Rohrl's Pikes Peak S1 and another S1 out and ran them as part of the parade
which congested a lot of the roads around Ingolstadt (Imagine a traffic jam
of UrQs of all sorts, more than 2 km long!) We've visited the building
where the UrQ was made (passing through a lot of top-secret factory areas
to get there) and shook hands with Hannu Mikkola and Stig Blomqvist this
morning. There was a nice display of the historic competition vehicles
(including an STW A4, DTM V8, IMSA GTO 90 and TransAm 200)>>snip!!