Re: Airbag availability

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made llevitt@idcresearch.com say:

> Steve writes:
> 
> > P.S. when did Audi start providing air-bags as a feature (std/optional)?
> 
> Hey, I can answer this one :)
> 
> The 200 series cars started becoming available with airbags in late 1989. Not 
> all 1989 200s had bags.
> 
> The 100 series cars started becoming available with airbags in 1990. Don't
> know exactly when in the year, but I'd expect that most or all of 1990
> 100s had bags.
> 
> Don't know about 80/90s...

My '89 100Q does not have an airbag. Of course, it still scored
best on the crash tests...

Angela's '90 90Q20V has one. I went through this exercise before
looking at it. In '90, they started phasing them into the 90's.
The 20V cars got them first; most/all of them have airbags.
Later in the year, they started putting them in the other 90's.

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