Re: 1990 Audi 100 S...

[tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)]

You wrote:
> Audi in those days was marketed as the small MB that
> MB didn't build.  It's no accident that the number "100" was used -- it
> fit nicely right below the "200"s at the bottom of the MB line.

Actually, the "100" followed nicely from Audi's older "60", "75" and "90"
models -- this is the first I've heard that they were trying to emulate
Mercedes with those numbers.

Of course, Mercedes *did* own Audi until the '60s...

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