[Fwd: RE: German Engineering]

[Ti Kan]

Yes, that's the model I was talking about.  It was an '86 4000CS FWD
with the special trim as you described.  Mechanically it was not
much different than the regular 4000S 1.8 FWD so there wasn't a
separate owner's manual.

-Ti
2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
1984 5000S turbo
1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
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John Sherrow writes:
> I actually owned an '86 4K commemorative edition (I think, the PO told
> me so). I bought it used so I can't comment on how it was marketed new;
> however, it was graphite metallic with tan/black leather interior. The
> seats had a (suede?) insert. There was no special badging. It had 4000
> CS on the trunk and was FWD. It had the 5K aero wheels and a 5spd. If I
> remember it had the 1.8L 4 cylinder. The owners manual,just to confuse
> things, said 4000S on the cover.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: George Selby <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: German Engineering
> To: "Doug Johnson" <ur-quattro at msn.com>
> CC: quattro at audifans.com
>
> At 10:56 PM 8/28/03, you wrote:
> >Someone mentioned that they do use the CE tag in Canada, and Ti wrote that
> >Commemorative Special (yes, Audi used that phrase in their advertising) only
> >applied to FWD '86 4000s.
>
> So that would be a 86 4kscs.  I think I've got this figured out.  There
> is
> a 86 4ks Commemorative Series, but it's probably not labeled as a CS,
> because they also have 4kcsq's of the same year that aren't
> Commemorative
> Series, but could be Commemorative Editions.  They also have 86 CGT that
> are CE's (but not labeled as such.  By labelled I mean on the trunk and
> on
> the dash.)