Why Audi stopped rallying

[Jouko Haapanen]

The Seat Cordoba was rallying at the WRC level until this year, and
the A4 chassis of the Audi A3 is present in the form of the Skoda
Octavia WRC.  Audi withdrew from Group B before its demise after the
question was asked by the Audi supremos from the drivers if they could
guarantee no spectators will ever get killed by a factory Audi.  'nuff
said...

Jouko Haapanen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Dyer" <chrisdyer at hotmail.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 9:41 PM
Subject: RE: Why Audi stopped rallying


> Keep in mind that SEAT (a VAG co. making golf/passat/etc. clones)
has been
> doing extensive rallying. (tho not sure if in WRC)
>
>
> >From: Erik Addy <erikaddy at yahoo.com>
> >To: Martin Suryadarma <msuryadarma at mail.wesleyan.edu>,        Matt
Van
> >Bogart <mvanbogart at hotmail.com>
> >CC: quattro at audifans.com
> >Subject: RE:  Why Audi stopped rallying
> >Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >
> >--- Martin Suryadarma <msuryadarma at mail.wesleyan.edu>
> >wrote:
> > > Okay, group B was banned. But all the other
> > > manufacturers switched to WRC,
> > > why not Audi?
> >
> >Well, I don't think they were in a position to make a
> >really competitve car.  Look at how small the
> >competitor cars were.  Based on econoboxes, a market
> >audi wasn't in.  The A3 would be about the right size,
> >though....
> >
> >Erik
> >
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