quattro Digest, Vol 36, Issue 62

[Ed Kellock]

I think it's a copy.  All you have to do is look at the original next
to an '85 5k (no t, no q).  Even the headlights look the same.  Too
much for coincidence, I think.
Remember the Granada?  That was really Mercedes-esque with it's crisp
lines and raised front fender lines and tallish grill.

Release in '84 means there were prototypes running around a couple
years prior.  Those in the business get to see a lot more than we do,
just by where they roam.

Ed

On 10/19/06, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
> The first Taurus/Sable came out in 1986. The type 44 came out in 1984.
>
> At the time Ford said that they had the shortest turn around from concept to
> production, 38 months.
>
> So, do you think it's truely a copy, or does the cold unemotional reality of
> science dictate techno-(for the time) mobiles?
>
> LL - NY
>
> On 10/19/06, thejimrose <thejimrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > agreed.. when i first got my 1st 5k i kept seeing it in other cars. the
> > taurus, the sterling, the mazda 6's and others all had these very audi 5k
> > styling cues lifted. the sterling i think was the most obvious.
> >
> > was sterling part of amc/eagle? weird..
> >
> > and yeah, the omni was such a rabit knockoff. i admit i always wanted a
> > shelby turbo omni. =)
> >
> > Audi Content-I have always wondered if Ford borrowed
> > liberally from the Type 44 when they made the
> > Taurus...the ChryCo Omni/Horizon were knockoffs of the
> > VW Rabbit to the point where early OmniRizons had VW
> > engines in them.
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