[Barry P. Lewis: Re: was it sold in the US?]

[Chris Idleman (FSAC-AAD) <cidleman@fsac3.pica.army.mil>]

Barry P. Lewis (barry@ctron.com) wrote:

> Although this worked on rear drive cars, like the Jag XKE, the disks got 
> too hot in the Audi setup and had very short life. Later 100 models had 
> convential brakes, but they couldn't shake the bad rep. When the 100 was 
> redone, it was call the 5000 in North America only, to show buyers it was 
> different than the "old" 100s.
> 
> Barry
> '86 4000CS Quattro

And of course, we all know the story about Audi "re-doing" the 5000 and
calling it the 100 to shake a bad rep!   ;-)

					- Chris Idleman
					  '87 Coupe GT