audi sales plans: 1m cars

[Steve Sears]

Dave,
Three words:
Le Mans quattro
C'mon Audi......you know you waaaaannnaaaaa.....
Puhleeze.....don't just release it in 1:18 through Revell.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
2005 Le Mans quattro (pretty please?)
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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----- Original Message ----- 
> From: David Eaton <dave.eaton at clear.net.nz>
> Subject: audi sales plans: 1m cars
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Message-ID: <402138e7.15b.3050.21855 at clear.net.nz>
> 
> note the comments about the number of new models planned...
> 
> dave
> '01 s8
> ------------------------
> 
> FRANKFURT -- The luxury Audi unit of Europe's biggest
> carmaker Volkswagen said on Wednesday it planned to increase
> annual production to around one million vehicles in the
> medium to long term. 
> 
> A spokesman for the company declined to comment on specific
> figures to appear in a report Germany's Capital magazine.
> According to the magazine, Audi plans to lift production to
> close to 1.1 million vehicles by 2008, a roughly 42 percent
> rise from current levels, boosted by 12 new models. 
> 
> "We do have plans for growth which run to about one million
> units, but there is no set time frame," said an Audi
> spokesman. 
> 
> Audi, which accounted for about one third of VW profits in
> 2002, sold 767,000 vehicles last year and has forecast
> record sales for 2004, helped by the new A3 hatchback and an
> updated A6. 
> 
> Audi has already said it plans to more than double sales in
> the United States by about 2007-2008. Audi's mother company
> VW is under pressure amid signs that its new Golf car, on
> which investors were pinning hopes for recovery after a
> profit slump in 2003, is succumbing to pricing pressure and
> slow sales.