Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

[Mark Besso]

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A couple of burly German guys (Mssrs. Pöints und Kondenser) will pay your
Audi a visit and it will eternally have trouble starting for making such a
comment on a public forum!

~Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: LL - NY
Subject: Re: Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

It's revered 'cuz the Bosch electronics mean that it's a 28 year old car
that actually starts!!!

Okay, j/k, no disrespect meant to the Father of Darkness or to the Audi
Gods.

LL - NY

On 2/7/08, Geraint Lloyd <geraintlloyd_qc at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J. Besso
> 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
>