Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

[LL - NY]

Da, but dey'd be cunfuzed by the Svedish looking Japanese Import in das vay
of
it, so I tink I'll (edit: my Audi vill) be safe.

Oops, I guess this was off topic too far, too.

LL - NJ (just in case Points und Kondenser are vatching. BTW, what vuz de
last Audi to use those?)



On 2/7/08, Mark Besso <mbspeed at maxboostracing.com> wrote:
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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
> >
>
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