Making Audi A Player

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <c=US%a=_%p=Borealis%l=WATSON-970116161124Z-1474@watson.internal.sierrasw.com> Mark Nelson writes:

> There has been a lot of development that each company shares, and Audi
> actually was the one to help Porsche most recently in the development of
> the 959 drivetrain, Carrera 4 drivetrain, and the '96 + turbo
> drivetrain.  VW was actually the company that built the Porsche 924 and
> 944 for Porsche.

Porsche were customers of mine in the early 1980s, and I spent some time at 
Weissach.  At the time, the main project there was the Passat "tetra", which 
was subsequently launched as the "synchro".

The standard joke was that they didn't actually test cars at Weissach - they 
just drove them up from the factory.  Anyone who's been up the road from 
Zuffenhausen to Weissach will know why!
 
(In the old days, before the 120kph limit on the Autobahn past Zuffenhausen, 
it was quite normal to be passed by test vehicles doing monstrous speeds.  The 
giveaway was the Weissach registration "BB-PW nnnn".  I once followed a 
microbus at 130mph!)


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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club