Does Audi Recognize the 5000?

[Chris Dyer]

Yes. You may have a history published for Europeans, where the US 5/4k's
were 80/90/100s.  I'll give you the short US history:

VW buys Audi and starts selling the 100 here in the US. Then comes the
amazing 5000 and 4000. Then some ding-dongs who don't know the accel. pedal
from the brake pedal get in accidents. "60 Minutes" airs and Audi a) sh**s =
a
brick and b) does nothing to solve the issue.  Spends the next 8 years
making great cars that cost way too much to ensure slow sales. Then the a4
hits, Audi is revitalized. All knowledgeable mechanics of pre-a4 models are
fired and shipped to a mysterious location still unknown to this day.  Rebe=
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forces create audifans.


>From: George Harris <harchris at smokesignal.net>
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Does Audi Recognize the 5000?
>Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:18:13 -0800
>
>I was just scanning the official history of Audi put out by Audi, and I
>found 80's, 90's, 100's, and 200's, but no 4000's nor 5000's. What
>gives? Are the 4000's and 5000's just rebadged 100's or something?
>
>In the same book there was a write up about the TDI. It started out in
>an '88 with 80 hp, and was listed last in an A8 ('94 I think) with 140
>hp. I would love to have the economy of the diesel but can't live
>without the get up and go of the gas Turbo in the 5000. Anyone who
>commutes on high speed highways knows what a life saver the ability to
>get up to highway speed is when merging.
>
>Has anyone seen the higher horsepower TDI's available on the used
>market? Can they be fit into the 5000 Quattro retaining the running
>gear? Can the older TDI's be upgraded to the higher power?
>
>Cheers
>George




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