[s-cars] Audi suprises at the ring today...

[Bob DG]

Listers,

does anyone know about importing euro only cars, such as a RS2? There is a
guy on the east coast that imported a RS2, I think he recently imported an
Alpina 850. Is it just a matter of federalzing the car?






>From: "Keith Maddock" <keith at maddock.com>
>To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Subject: [s-cars] Audi suprises at the ring today...
>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:49:58 +0200
>
>Greetings from Germany!
>
>Thought you all might like to share in the suprise I had today when I went
>to the 'ring after work to get a few relaxing laps in during the evening
>open-hours..
>
>Take a look! :)
>http://keith.maddock.com/NS010403a/web/index.htm
>
>RS2, RS6's, and new V8-S4's !!!
>Serious mega audi drool action :)
>
>Apparently the new cars were there for some Audi marketing deal - give some
>"preferred customers" a hot lap or two around the ring...
>
>The RS2 just happened to show up, and find all of his offspring there!
>They
>were quite suprised to see all the other cars there...
>
>Also saw (but no picture sorry) a new A3 also with Ingolstadt plates - had
>a
>nice chat with him and he said the 5-door model is coming to the US, as
>close to German spec as possible (we joked about the US Spec UrS4's -
>especially springs)..  The car he had was powered by the 240hp 3.2l VR6,
>and
>it wasn't even the S3 model...  I asked, so when does the RS3 come?
>"Later..."  The only disparaging comments he had was about weight.. Seems
>they are a bit porky like all the other new Audis recently :(  Pretty soon
>our cars are going to seem like featherweights :-D
>
>Enjoy,
>Keith
>
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