Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

[LL - NY]

Yeah, I meant "Prince of Darkness", prince, father, whatever. Either way
when Lucas lights the way...or not.
mAC. Lucas is in partnership with Girling. Might explain the pathetic
braking of G60's on type 44's and UrS's.

LL - NY

On 2/7/08, Danton J.A. Cardoso <djacardoso at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You mean the "prince of darkness" aka Lucas?  Which is the biggest
> PITA in automotive electronics.  However, I did have an exceptional
> Lucas system on my '96 Disco, that is until it was plagued with
> misfires, and a hidden check engine code!!!
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 6:55 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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: 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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