Re: wagon news from a sales rep

["Anthony K.B. Chan" <chan@seattleu.edu>]

It's hard for me to believe too. In Seattle I've seen as many late model 
92' and newer 100/A6 wagons as sedans. They're probably be crazy if they 
decided to offer just the A4 wagon. The only reason I can see is the 
price differential between the A4 and A6 wagons i.e. if they are 
very close in price then they might think that they are going to shoot 
themselves in the foot. Sort of like they decided not to import the 
S6 plus(the A6 with the 4.2 V8) to compete with their own V8. 

It is a situation very similar to BMWs probably no body in this group 
care much to discuss about. They also have a 3 series wagon in Europe 
which never came to the US. They only imported the 5 series wagons and I 
guess it's also due to the price differential of the two models. In 
Europe most german cars has a lot engine option that are never available 
in the US. Have you ever seen a BMW 316 or 518? If they can offer that 
range of engine and trim level option as well as a market has enough 
demand then they would do that but I think Audi's market share is still 
not as big as other cars brand.  

Anthony Chan, First Hill, Seattle, WA, USA.
chan@seattleu.edu
92' 100 V6 Tornado Red.

On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 21:28:36 -0600 (CST)
> From: Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu> <honge@creighton.edu>
> To: Audi majordomo <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
> Subject: Re: wagon news from a sales rep
> 
> >>However, Jim Ellis sales rep in Atlanta said their Auid rep was in last
> >>week and had updates on the wagon situation.
> 
> >Don't believe anything you hear from a Jim Ellis rep.  They are far and
> >away the least informed Audi salespeople I've ever encountered (and
> >...
> 
> Heh, that's what I thought. It's quite unbelievable that AoA would import
> A4 Avant to do battle with "touring" models of E- and 5-series...
> 
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