communist Audis

[Wylie Bean]

These cars are not pirated at all.  Audi has had a partnership with
FAW China since 1989 to build them there, and badge them differently.
They started badging them as Audis in 1998 ( I think) when the last
generation A6 was built there by FAW and badged as an Audi for the
first time.  If you do a Google search for Audi FAW partnership you
should get a number of hits, including ones right on Audi's US and UK
websites.
Audi I believe is now the largest foreign automaker in China.

I thought they were called Hong Xi (hong chee) or something like that,
but I could be wrong.  The higher-ups in the govt/military used to use
the typ44 V8Ls as limos.

If you look hard enough, you can even find scale die casts of them on
ebay.  Imagine......


Wylie Bean
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