[s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo

Mon Oct 18 08:52:55 PDT 2010

I guess that might be the advantage of trying to get ACNA to get a release from 
Audi...then you could order any color with whatever logo you wanted for the 
different cars.

Unfortunately, I'm headed out of the country tomorrow, so I won't be able to take it 
up with someone at ACNA until next week, unless I can find a break later today.

Really...there are no officers lurking on the list???

On Mon Oct 18 11:26 , LL - NY  sent:

>Although I *should* be in for Ecru, I like my existing (but worn) black set
>on the floor. Makes for a two tone vanilla/licorice look, and it's way
>easier to keep clean.  My vote still stands with black/silver.
>
>On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Andrew B andrew.sb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one interested in an Ecru set?  I'd probably be in for
>> an Ecru/beige/light brown set for at least driver and passenger, if
>> not all four.  What's on them isn't as important as high quality and
>> appropriate coloring.  It would be a bonus if it had the four rings or
>> quattro script, or the //S6 on it.  Maybe we could pull Ur//S on it or
>> something un-patented?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM,  smarinello at entouch.net> wrote:
>> > I wonder if, perhaps, this might be an opportunity to see if Audi and the
>> Audi Club,
>> > N.A. actually do something for us.  Since the mats are NLA, maybe we can
>> get one of
>> > our illustrious directors to get Audi to send a letter releasing the
>> restriction for
>> > mats for the older cars for a specific set of scripts.
>> >
>> > I know, In know...A long shot, but maybe...an opportunity to actually
>> work with
>> > them???  Any Board member want to chime in and give it a shot?
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> > On Mon Oct 18 10:27 , "Wylie Bean"  sent:
>> >
>> >>I have a set of them in black. Lloyds had to cease poduction though.....
>> Got a
>> > "nasty letter" from Audi.
>> >>Wylie Bean
>> >>TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
>> >>90 cq
>> >>91 90q20v
>> >>92 UrS4
>> >>08 Q7 3.6
>> >>Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
>> >>
>> >>-----Original Message-----
>> >>From: Darin Nederhoff scarsgo at gmail.com>
>> >>Sender: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> >>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:13:12
>> >>To: Mike Sylvestermike at urq20v.com>
>> >>Cc: JCjc at j2c3.com>; Robert Myersbob at chips-ur-s.com>; quattro
>> > listquattro at audifans.com>; S-CAR lists-car-list at audifans.com>
>> >>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo
>> >>
>> >>Back when I had my '90 CQ 20V I had Lloyd mats that said quattro on
>> >>them. Even had the correct font.
>> >>
>> >>Darin Nederhoff
>> >>
>> >>Sent from my iPhone
>> >>612.293.6575
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:32 AM, "Mike Sylvester" mike at urq20v.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I was able to get a set with urq20v, but I guess they wouldn't know
>> what
>> >>> that is.
>> >>>
>> >>> Can Audi copyright a number?  Unless you used their font, I don't they
>> >>> could do anything about using quattro.
>> >>> Even S6 might be OK.  That is why Intel changed their processor after
>> >>> the 486.  They couldn't trademark the number.  AMD was using Intel
>> >>> numbering with their processors so Intel went to Pentium etc.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Mike
>> >>>
>> >>> www.urq20v.com
>> >>>
>> >>>> -------- Original Message --------
>> >>>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo
>> >>>> From: "Steve Marinello" smarinello at entouch.net>
>> >>>> Date: Sun, October 17, 2010 12:00 am
>> >>>> To: "'JC'" jc at j2c3.com>, "'Robert Myers'" bob at chips-ur-s.com>,
>> >>>> "'S-CAR list'" s-car-list at audifans.com>
>> >>>> Cc: 'quattro list' quattro at audifans.com>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I tried urquattro and '83 urq and Lloyds refused.  My position was, as
>> you
>> >>>> stated, that it was the enthusiast community that had coined and
>> continues
>> >>>> to use the term, not Audi.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: JC [jc at j2c3.com','','','')">jc at j2c3.com]
>> >>>> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:41 PM
>> >>>> To: 'Steve Marinello'; 'Robert Myers'; 'S-CAR list'
>> >>>> Cc: 'quattro list'
>> >>>> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Yep. I suspect it will work out like this - you could get a small shop
>> to do
>> >>>> a one-off (or at least maybe 2 or 3 sets) but the minute it gets to a
>> big
>> >>>> group buy quantity people will get nervous and the places you'd most
>> like to
>> >>>> use for price/quality reasons will not want to touch it. BTDT before
>> when  I
>> >>>> had some shirts with a logo made... got a few one-offs for myself, my
>> >>>> friends dug them and stole a number of them from me. I went back for
>> more in
>> >>>> a small batch quantity and the place suddenly got real real nervous
>> and
>> >>>> didn't want to do any anymore.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Interested about the "UrQ" thing though, surprised they Audi could
>> prevail
>> >>>> on that but maybe they are just being super cautious or maybe Audi
>> added all
>> >>>> kinds of "Ur" stuff to their copyrights at some point.  I'd think it
>> >>>> wouldn't hold up due to prior usage (aka it was enthusiasts that
>> coined and
>> >>>> used the terms widely first?) but whaddoiknow I'm no Perry Mason.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Well, I really like Lloyds mats, but as the reason they
>> >>>>> don't/won't do the ring logo, or anything else Audi,
>> >>>>> INCLUDING urq or urquattro, which I tried to get, because of
>> >>>>> VW/Audi's licensing position, I think it will be hard to find
>> >>>>> someone else to do it for a group.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> That being said, I'd love a set!
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
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