Re: BMW 325ix 4 wheel drive ?

[Mikes Garage <gml2@Ra.MsState.Edu>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Bob D'Amato wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Mikes Garage wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > WHAT, an afterthought.  The Audi seemed like an forethought that never was 
> > developed all the way, just kidding no flames.  But the bmw is a 
> > excellent car and I would go as far to say it has a much better engine than
> > a five wor pot that Audi had to stay with because of political reasons.  
> > I still would like to know what you mean by 'designed in' which Audi was 
> 
> Oh OH, here I go.... I just read a little history on the Q a little while 
> ago, and it was in fact designed in, and they did develop the chassis 
> around the AWD system.  This was true for the original Q's, but not too 
> sure now. Now you can 'add' quattro for $1500 above base price.  Does 
> this mean the nonq chassis are actually q platforms, just without the 
> awd? Or the q's are the regular platform..... Who knows.
> 
> But I have had vast experience with both the BMW (5's and 6's mostly) and 
> the engine in the Audi is far superior than that of the BMW.  It is much 
> more bulletproof and needs less fixing. 
> 
> The BMW was always breaking, in need of expensive repairs etc...
> 
> My opinion..
> Bob
Vast experience, are you a mechanic trained by either audi or bmw, do you 
have 20 or so bmw's that you work on or audi's.  I have a least 6 5000's 
siting behind my fathers shop you can have.  All with engines that are 
not worth fixing.  But damn if my bmw is still running as good as new 
with hardly any problems along the way.  As a mechanical engineer and as 
other engineers have noted the bmw 6cyl is an excellent design.  
By the way did you ever figure out what maser shares your biturbo engine
I had almost forgotten your mistake concerning the SM(ah what a car)> 
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