AudiWatch Update (Tm) #50

[glen.powell@smc.com]

  AudiWatch Update (Tm) #50 1-19-95



  AUDI IN THE NEWS
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  1994 SCCA PRO RALLY REVIEW, SportsCar magazine, Feb '95,
  front cover and pg 12-19
  Choiniere/Becker (and Audi, Ed.) Successfully Defend Title
  (beautiful full-cover color pic of the Quattro S2 Pro Rally car, Ed.)

  .....the '94 SCCA Pro Rally series was not business as usual.....
  Paul Choinere and Jeff Becker were back in their Audi Quattro S2.....
  the "big four" of the '94 championship chase were the Porsche Carrera
  4 of Jeff Zwart, the Mitsubitchy Eclipse of Henry Joy, the Audi Quattro
  S2 of Paul Choiniere and the Ford Escort Cosworth of Carl Merrill.....
  occasional interlopers that sent wake-up calls were the Audi Quattro S2
  of Frank Sprongle.....(nice B&W pics of the S2, Carrera 4 and Escort, Ed.)
  (see COMPETITION RESULTS for season points totals, Ed.)

  WORLD NEWS, Autoweek, Jan 5, '95

  WHAT HAS 5 cyliners, a turbo, makes 240 HP and rides on Pirelli
  PZeros? It's the new Volvo T5-R wagon, Ed.
  See Autoweek, Jan 5, '95 pgs 4-5, Can you say RS-2?

  COMEBACK TRAIL pg 6-7
    If you're going to cruise the comeback trail, why not do it in a
  Porsche?
    After loosing $286 million over the last three years, Porsche AG will
  break even this year, and will be profitable by the end of fiscal '95,
  chairman Wendlin Wiedeking said.
    Compared with the previous year, sales were up 35% WW and 60% in the US.
  Wiedeking has earned praise for bringing Porsche back. VW chairman
  Ferdinand Piech has called Wiedeking the best chief executive in the
  audo business.
    Porsche will show the Carrera RS at the Amsterdam show later this
  month, and the 911 Turbo (all AWD, Ed.) at Geneva next march and the
  Boxter in '96.

  DATA, pg 8
  MEXICAN BEETLE BUMPED
  No Longer Top Seller There
    The VW Beetle, Mexico's top-selling car for may years, has been
  passed by the Nissan Sentra (Tsuru). Nissan cut $1,300 off the price
  in early '94, giving the Sentra a $7,800 base.
    But VW de Mexico has no plans to halt Bug production. As one VW
  dealer put it, "It's a reliable car. It's tough and holds up well
  against Mexico's bad roads. I've heard some people in rural Mexico
  use the car to plow fields. It's like the Model T was in America."
    Below are the Beetle's annual sales in Mexico for the past four years.

  YEAR      SALES
  94        78,233
  93        97,539
  92        85,989
  91        86,353

  LETTERS, pg 10

  HALF A GRAPH IS BETTER THAN NONE
    How ironic. A month after the season ends, we get a nice article
  about how little media coverage PRO Rally receives ["The Secret Sport,"
  AW, Dec 19, '94]. Don't you know, AUTOWEEK devotes half a paragraph
  every month or so. Of course, final standings were absent from the
  previous issue's "1994 in Review." Secret sport indeed.

  SOMETIMES IT TAKES FIVE YEARS TO MAKE A PIECE OF BREAD AND BUTTER,
  AW, Nov 21, '94 pg 16-17

  Watch out, BMW and Mercedes; Audi is coming on strong with the
  stylish new A4
  (2-page feature article, B&W pics, Ed.)
  .....174 HP 2.8L V6.....100 Lbs lighter than the 90.....feels as
  exclusive as many luxury cars twice its price.....A sporty version
  of the A4--probably badged S4--likely will be introduced next fall
  in Frankfurt.....a formidable force in the luxury car market and
  a challenge for BMW and Mercedes for years to come.

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  as discussed at great length on the .net

  COMPETITION RESULTS
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  1994 SCCA PRO RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

  OVERALL
  Drivers            Co-drivers      Manufacturers
  Chioniere 119      Becker  119     AUDI   144
  Zwart      92      Maxwell  64     Mitsu   95.4
  Merrill    72      Headland 63     Mazda   86.6

  OPEN
  Drivers            Co-drivers      Manufacturers
  Choiniere 119      Becker  119     AUDI   148.8
  Zwart      96      Maxwell  72     Porsche 86
  Merrill    72      Headland 67     Mitsu   64


  AUDIS OF INTEREST FOR SALE/WANTED
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  '83 AUDI QUATTRO TURBO COUPE, Xlnt cond, 2 sets tires, Thule racks,
  $500 stereo, drives like a dream! $11K/OBO 303-453-0530 CO  AW 1-9-95

  '91 AUDI 200 QUATTRO WAGON, 217 HP, 20V turbo, 50k mi, Pearl/Gray lth,
  records, $23,900, Bill 410-268-5951 MD     1-2-95

  '83 AUDI COUPE QUATTRO, pristine cond, low miles, religiously maint,
  black, 714-951-2942 CA  1-2-95

  '90 AUDI COUPE QUATTRO, Pearl white/Gray lth, 5 spd, records, ex cond,
  low miles, $16,500, Jack, 810-765-4972 MI    1-2-95

  '92 AUDI QUATTRO S4 21k mi, Emerald Mica/Ecru, 227HP 5 cyl, 20V Turbo,
  clean, lowered, CD, new Gdyrs, $33,000/obo, Gregg, 412-771-7300  1-2-95

  '91 AUDI V8 QUATTRO, blk/tan, all pwr, phone, SR, lea, low miles,
  $24,900, 603-641-5303  NH   1-2-95

  WANTED: header or other high-performance exhaust manifold for
  ur-Quattro, call Glen @ 508-691-1248 or email glen.powell@smc.com


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