Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

[Geraint Lloyd]

It was the last right hand drive urq produced.

Please bear in mind that audi UK might not have the same mentality as Audi
AG regarding the "classics". The UK is, after all the land of MGBS, Healeys
and Triumphs.  

The separate and prolonged involvement of Dave Sutton Motorsport and
Audisport UK in the URQs rally history, independent of Ingolstat, may be a
decent indicator of why the last rhd urq is so revered. 

Geraint


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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Mark J. Besso
Sent: February 6, 2008 3:22 PM
To: Audifans; urq at audifans.com; msvphoto at pacbell.net
Subject: Re: Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

I was rather miffed about them calling it something like 
last-quattro-sport-coupe-produced....or whatever the actual terminology was.

It makes me wonder what other Q-owners with merely two doors consider their 
cars?

~MB


On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:57:53 -0800 (PST)
  Mike Veglia <msvphoto at pacbell.net> wrote:
  Very interesting story. However, this quote seems a tad ironic:
  
  "We would never be able to replace this car and its value to the
brand is inestimable" said Jeremy Hicks Director of Audi UK.
  
  After all, we are talking about a car the manufacturer dumped the
spares inventory for and offers zero support for. Yeah, "inestimable"
is about right. The way things are going the already scare Ur-Quattro
will become extinct and only the "inestimable" examples will be all
the remain as the ones the rest of us own become cannibalized to keep
the museum pieces alive.
  
  What, me bitter? Perhaps...
  
  Mike Veglia
  
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