My 5000TQ went bye bye,time for another (attn Nebraska listers)...

[John Forbes]

Aha. Well my mistake, I thought even the urQs were 20v. I'm still new to this Audi deal, but ask an (aircooled) Porsche question and its a different story!

-Cody


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Nate Stuart" <newt at newtsplace.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:02:28 -0400 (EDT)

>All of the UrQ's have turbo motors from the factory. The coupe GT's were
>the coupes on this side of the pond that weren't quattro, and didn't have
>turbo motors. The later T89/B3 chassis coupe quattro came with a NA 20v
>motor only here in the US. In Europe there was a 20v-turbo version.
>
>-Nate
>'89 90tq
>www.newtsplace.com/90tq
>
>John Forbes said:
>> Also to add, while I still at the scene watch the fire crew do thier work
>> I
>> was thinking "Hmm...maybe I should get a Quattro coupe, maybe an urQ..."
>> but
>> then I realised that I really like the turbo motor, and I'm not yet up for
>> the amount of work to do the conversion. Plus IMHO the Coupe GTs were
>> pretty
>> ugly. Maybe somebody knows of a turbo conversion urQ out there for cheap
>> (if
>> there is such a thing as cheap)?
>>
>> -Cody
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
>> To: "John Forbes" <john at craincorporated.com>
>> Cc: "Audifans Q-list" <quattro at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:43 AM
>> Subject: Re: My 5000TQ went bye bye, time for another (attn Nebraska
>> listers)...
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > Well last night the car caught fire and pretty much burnt to the
>>> > ground.
>>>
>>> What a sad story... although it is sweet and telling that you are opting
>>> to buy another same year, same brand, same model car ASAP.
>>>
>>> I hope all goes well and your new ride, whatever it may be, is even more
>>> convincing of your loyalty than the previous!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Huw Powell
>>>
>>> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
>>>
>>> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>>>
>>>
>>
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