Ashes to Ashes urQ: interesting side story

[Danton J.A. Cardoso]

Well, when the Brits are involved in engineering, watch out!

On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 9:27 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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