The fate of the turbowagon.

["Peter Fraser" <Peter_Fraser@macmail.lbl.gov>]

              Memo from Peter Fraser                Ext. 6517
 OAA
        Subject: The fate of the turbowagon...         3/2/95     5:11 PM

hey -

a while ago i asked a pal at audi about eliot's dealers's remarks on the future
of the turbo q wagon.  he asked another contact in the company for us what the
real scoop is.  here's the answer:

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Peter, from my friend at legal:
  
  
The message is exactly correct.  Eliot's dealer really knows his stuff.
  
The turbocharged 5 just won't pass the tougher emissions standards which
became effective in California for MY 1995, and go Federal for MY 1996,
and low volume makes it impractical to do the necessary engineering.  So,
the S6 isn't offered at all in California (or Mass., which adopted the
same stds.) for MY 1995, and this is its last year.  We have gotten AAG
to agree to keep producing 95s through December (you can designate a
vehicle as being of a particular model year if it's not built later than
that calendar year).  There will be 300 S6 Wagons, of which almost all
are already allocated.  Especially one in Cashmere Grey with Ecru trim.
We are trying to see if we can get any more.

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i guess i should let you know that my friend is a member of the list, but has
so far chosen to remain a lurker.  perhaps we can make an arrangement to
pipeline these sorts of questions to him, like assign him a name and put it in
the subject line to get his attention (he, like me, gets tired of post after
post about license plate frames and thus doesn't read every post).

let's call him "Kyle"

-- peter of lbl
peter_fraser@macmail.lbl.gov