Re UrQ impression an ode to the Q

[urquattro]

Well put Javad!  Thanks for your thoughts ...

It is funny to note that I looked forward with anticipation to my first
chance to drive my little brother's new A4 1.8TQ Avant ... and frankly I was
not terribly impressed.  Don't get me wrong, it is a very nice and smooth
car ... it just seemed a bit sedate to me.  Perhaps it was that I had set my
expectations too high ... that may have also been the case for the person
taking the test drive in the ury ... perhaps it is that to extract the full
value of the A4 1.8TQ one needs to put a little money into mods ... also a
characteristic true for the urquattro IMO ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

> Basically, I think what would sum this up is:  No one out there buys or
> drives an Ur-q or any older Audi because it is nicer, more refined, and
> smoother than an A4 1.8t.  The Ur-q represents what Audi is, what enables
> Audi to, in modern times, build a car as smooth and refined as the A4.
>
> The Ur-q in my eyes is the archetypal Audi- every Audi attempts to do what
> the Ur-q did back in 1981.  It was an innovative, powerful car that forced
> the automotive injustry to reconsider what a fast, agile car really looked
> like.