4000 Turbo diesel wagon story

[Tom Nas]

"Veetesse" <veetesse at hotmail.com> wrote:

>While on the subject of cars that never made it here, I had an interesting =
>conversation with a friend of mine just last night.  My friend Dave is a re=
>tired Audi/Porsche dealer master tech in the USand told me of a 4000 based =
>wagon that he saw in the early 80's.

(snip)

> >From what he describes, it was a 83-84 wagon based on the 4000 (non quattro=
>) equipped with a four cylinder diesel engine and the four headlight (type =
>81) grill design.  He claims that the car was quite "zippy" with the turbo =
>and that it handled pretty reasonably for the time.  He went on to tell ano=
>ther funny story about one of the techs going out to "see what it could do"=
>  on a test course (with four people in the car) and spinning it into the we=
>eds.

(more snip)

>I know that the US didn't get many of the models or variations (engine choi=
>ces) that Europe and the rest of the world got, but I was wondering if anyo=
>ne had a picture of one of these cars.  I'd like to see how they did the re=
>ar of the car and how much it looks like the Quantum wagon...  Anyone care =
>to comment or have pics?

Hmmm... I thought I'd collected enough Audi reference books, but I've been
unable to find any mention of this vehicle. However, like the Fox/Dasher
wagon, it might have been another Audi/VW hybrid, which never materialized.

Regards, Tom