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Re: rebadged Audi?



Silent Bob, <qwe@wam.umd.edu>, wrote:

>I have another question. I was watching a BBC show and I saw a car that
>looked remarkably simliar to the Audi 5000, but it had a different grill
>and a Vauxhall badge on it. Was this some model that was licensed to
>Vauxhall, or am I mistaken.

That must have been the '81-'90 Vauxhall Cavalier/Opel Ascona, which indeed
looks superficially similar to the Audi 5K/100 (C3). The Vauxhall's a much
smaller car, though, and now looks much more dated than the Audi.

HTH,

Tom
1988 80 1.8S

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