[urq] Audis as Collectibles...

[Kwattro at aol.com]

In a message dated 01-01-21 22:50:24 EST, you write:

<< The Ur Q is the original Rally car and should already be in the
 festivals.  IMHO it should be the pinnacle of the rally group showing.  If
 you consider what in the U.S. is considered a classic, then the UR Q should
 be crossing into classic territory simple by age.  The Nova was the last
 muscle car that I remember there actually being a big fuss about it's
 status.  It was classified as classic on it's twentieth birthday, and by
 this ruling, the UrQ will be it in a couple years.
                                  >>


You;ll get a lot of flak if you believe this - the original AWD rally car, 
yes, but there were many, many rally cars (and many, many sucessful ones at 
that) before the Ur-Q.  The vaulted Sport Quattro was essentially a failure 
in competition, and the most sucessful rally car to date (by wins) is the 
Subaru WRX Impreza.  Which, BTW, if anyone was watching, showed up at 
Goodwood the past two years (in addition to a Focus WRX and a Peugot 206 WRX) 
to blow up the hillclimb.  Could the Ur-Q rally cars become collectable?  I 
think that they already have....but it's unlikely that you'll see the likes 
of a street Ur-Q rolling through the Barrett Jackson auction any time soon, 
especially when they're selling for well under 10k$.  Perhaps in 20 years, if 
the Audi marque stays on the path it's on, they might become a status item.  
Until then, they will be the little understood, hardly identifiable (to any 
car buff) weird looking scirocco's with body kits, as was so elequently put 
at one time....twenty years later, and people still don't know what "quattro" 
means.  Really.  Ask some non-car types what they think quattro means.  The 
most common answer I get is that they think it's the name of the car - like 
"Nova" or "Spectrum".  Not to name a few cheap chevies, but it has to be done 
every once in a while....

Later!
Carter