RE: [none]

["Bob D'Amato" <mx@snet.com>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Mark Nelson wrote:

> The reason Audi does not import these hot rods (S6, S6+, S8, etc), is
> because of the giant beuraucracy involved in importing a car to the U.S.
>  For some idiotic reason, any car that has different transmissions
> (manual or automatic), different engines (and this includes different
> power ranges NOT just displacement) has to go through a crash test.  So
> for example if Audi decided that they wanted to import the S8 with an
> automatic, manual, and tiptronic, they would have to crash test each of
> those three "different" cars.  Quite an expensive proposition,


So why dont we all pool our money together and buy 3 late model UrQ's or 
S2's from europe and give them to the gubment..they can crash test them, 
pass them and now we can buy them from europe!!!
Bob



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