Yes, but it's a Gucci handbasket

[Perry, Christoper (EDS)]

A very funny story my former boss told me about his 85 4000q.  He used the
factory pick-up option when Audi still offered it (I seriously hope thy
re-introduce that option) and he drove it around Europe for two weeks.
Nearly everywhere he stopped the locals would drool over it and exclaim
about the fact that it was a 4000 and it must have more power than their 80.
It looked bigger and meaner with the US-spec bumpers/badges so I guess they
thought it was a higher performance edition.  Little did they know... 

<Major snippige>

I think Audi of America's marketing people did drop the ball on that
one when they renamed the 100 to be a 5000 and a 80 to a 4000 just for the
North American market.  It's a bit insulting to our intelligence isn't it?
As if Americans (and Canadians) are somehow more gullible than our European
friends to this "bigger number must be better" nonsense.  What's even more
humorous is when Pontiac decided to name a model the "6000" to one-up on
Audi.  At any rate, those times are past and I hope it would never happen
again.  Audi now uses the same model designations worldwide and that's the
way it should be.

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-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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