[s-cars] Is a 100 heavier than an S4 in the fron

[Linus Toy]

You are getting confused by Audi's change to the A# model nomenclature
introduced in '95 with the A6...the '92-94 S4 is the same car (almost) as the
'92-94 100/s/cs/q, '95-97 A6/q and '95-'97 S6, all C4-chassis cars.

See Ti Kan's excellent page on models and platforms for more >>
http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/audi/usmodels.html

The car based on the 80/90 (B-platform) that you are probably thinking of is
the S2, never sold in the US.

The '92 100q (2.8 V6) is in fact lighter than a '92 S4 (2.2t I5)--100q is about
3700# while the S4 is about 3800#.  The frame & chassis of the cars is
identical--they should be, as they are both C4-chassis.  If Dan's question is
really comparing the 100 to the S4, then it's apples and oranges--FWD vs
quattro, but still based on the C4-chassis.  In this case, the 100 is just
under 3400#.  (quattro doesn't really add 400#, but the 100q and S4 have a lot
more standard equipment on them)

Currently maintaining:  '91 200q, '92 100s, '97 A6q
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com] On Behalf Of CyberPoet
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 7:59 PM
> To: mungerts at uneedspeed.net
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com; audisport44 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Is a 100 heavier than an S4 in the fron
>
>
> The same data at msn.com specifies that the two platforms
> also have the identical wheelbase, which doesn't make sense
> to me either... Wasn't the S4 platform at the time based on
> the Audi 90 platform? Time to find pictures of the two next
> to each other and get out a ruler... I'm guessing that they
> have confused the data for the S4 with the data for an S6 or
> an S8 (or an Audi 100 CS to begin with).
>
> Keep looking for hard data -- go to the mnf...
>
> =-= Marc
>
> On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Scott Munger wrote:
>
> > Marc, this is what I thought and reasoned as well, but Car
> Point has
> > the S4 tipping the scales
> >
> > 100 http://autos.msn.com/vip/specifications.aspx?modelid=81&src=vip
> >
> > S4 http://autos.msn.com/vip/specifications.aspx?modelid=85&src=vip
> >
> > Carpoint data wrong?
> >
> > --Scott Munger
> > '93 S4
> > '97 Cabriolet
>
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