Type 44's are officially classics, or at least scarce.

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My '82 Coupe GT draws the same response. People notice the indicated 47K on 
 the odometer, I don't set them straight on Audi speedometers. I also have 
a '90  Supercharged Cougar with an actual 78K. That gets a lot of "my father 
had one of  those". The supercharged Cougars were quite a lot lower 
production than the  Audi Coupes, so they are rarely seen either.
 
<cobram at juno.com> wrote:

> Maybe not by a strict  year designation,  but it seems that just about
> everywhere I stop  with the '90 200TQA someone wants to strike up a
> conversation about  how they haven't seen one of those in a long time, or
> wow, that's in  great shape etc.  Might be a regional thing, as around
> here type  44 Audi's were a dime a dozen "back in the day."  It kind of
>  struck me by surprise, it's not THAT old, but I guess attrition has  
taken
> it's toll.  Thinking about it, in the last couple weeks or  so I haven't
> seen ONE other type 44 on the  road.