Re: Vr's vs Audis

[Alexei M Voloshin <Alexei.M.Voloshin-1@tc.umn.edu>]

Bob,

just tell me one thing - did you buy your '90 brand new?

In terms of Japanese cars as compared to German cars we're talking about 
vehicles from two different universes. Japanese only dreamed of cars when 
Germans already drove them. It's like why Japanese did not have a space 
program until very recently? Because they had no school of space 
negineering and astrophysics! Same goes with cars. Surely they make nice 
cars, but they are mass transit cars - recycble. And about starting in 
cold weather, let me tell you this - my friend's '86 5KS lost all of its 
oil in the middle of Nevada. He drove it over 300 Mi, fixed the leak 
at a gas station, put the oil back in and 25K miles later (167K on the 
car) it still drives like new. How is that for extreme conditions! 
Although some of the peripherals like air/conditioning and automatic 
transmition are not the strengths of Audies, drive train and the engine 
are much stronger than any Japanese counter parts. 
By the way, if your gasket is leaking how do you drive it?

Alex.