[V8] RS4 Cabs will be sold in the U.S.

[jpb3]

"Audi of America was well in tune with the situation and sought to
homologate the RS4 Avant. Unfortunately, the design of the car became
an impossible stumbling block based on US vehicle safety standards.
The specific problem was Avant's open trunk design combined with the
battery location in the rear of the vehicle. Massive costs would be
incurred to either relocate the battery and redesign the electrical
system or to reinforce the area around the battery. In both cases
additional crash testing would be required. The cost of doing this
additional design work and testing would have made the price of each
RS4 Avant astronomical." quote from the article on Audidoode World

Pay up sucka :-)

John

On 6/6/07, Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Saw a Passat W8 4Motion 6 speed on Saturday at Motorstadt at VOA
> Headquarters.  Sweet car!
>
> Ingo
>
> On a side note, know what the reason for not bringing over the RS4
> avant?  The first to guess correctly will prompt me to paypal
> Audifans $20.
>
> Ingo
>
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Taka Mizutani wrote:
>
> > Considering that the A4 Cabriolet is now getting pretty old, there
> > really is
> > no reason to expect anything but the cloth top in the RS4 Cabriolet.
> >
> > There is a huge difference in price in MBZ SLs also because of the
> > really
> > wide spread in age (R129 was made from 1990 to 2003 or 2004) and
> > that the
> > current SL is the current model, thus commanding a higher price.
> >
> > Agreeing with Dan, the folding metal hardtops take up a lot of
> > space in most
> > of these cars (Miata being one of the exceptions), I don't
> > especially want a
> > folding metal hardtop convertible.
> >
> > How many 2000 A6 2.8 5-speeds are there? That's a rare car.
> >
> > How about VW Passat 1.8T 4Motion 5-speeds?
> > Or VW Passat W8 6-speed wagons?
> >
> > Taka
> >
> >
> > On 6/6/07, cobram at juno.com <cobram at juno.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Probably old news to most, but at 300 units may be the rarest post
> >> type
> >> 44 Audi in US market.
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/326cqy
> >>
> >> They're probably all accounted for already, but Audi is definitely
> >> behind
> >> the curve this time around, cloth top?  If you check out used
> >> convertibles (like the SL's) , there is a huge difference in
> >> demand/price
> >> for a retractable top model vs. the old canvas top.  Evidently
> >> "Vorsprung
> >> durch Technik" stops around the top of the door skins.
> >>
> >> BCNU,
> >> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> >> We come into the world naked, screaming and covered in blood. Why
> >> should
> >> the fun end there?
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