They're bringing back the 200!

[cobram at juno.com]

The Ford 500 was much more of a direct "piggyback" on the 5000, an AWD
car and all.  At least it was "truth in advertising" or moniker anyway,
since the Audi 5000 was 10X more car than the 500 could ever hope to be. 
 I'm being facetious of course, my father had a Galaxie XL back in the
day. 
Hmm, come to think of it, Audi was inspired by Ford, they looked at their
creation and behold, it was 10X better than any Ford, it was 100X better
than any Euro Dorf, thus the 100 in Euroland.......

 
"Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com> writes:
> Strangely it didn't even register with me.  I read about the Chrysler 
> 200 in
> a magazine a couple weeks ago and I didn't even make the connection. 
>  And I
> still own a 200.  I don't think anyone is going to confuse them.  
> Chrysler
> already has the current 300 and I knew it was preceded many years 
> before by
> a 300, so to rename the Sebring the 200 just sort of made sense to 
> me.
> Isn't somebody in China remaking Audis and calling them 300s?
> 
> Ed
>  
> Behalf Of cobram at juno.com
> 
> 
> Audi used the "200" decades after Chrysler used it in the early 
> 50's/late
> 40's to denote the "C200."  They have a long tradition of numbering 
> their
> cars.  Mercedes had 200's as did some defunct manufacturers.  
> Bet the hydraulics and climate control are much less problematic 
> than in the
> Audi version.  Just hope you get a car made before the 10AM 
> dope/booze
> break. ;-)
>