Re: Chrysler AWD -Reply

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Derek Daily wrote:
> 
> >>> <e6941tb@gnn.com> - 2/7/97 1:29 AM >>>
> Greg East wrote:
> >  > If memory serves, Chrysler's AWD system was designed by an
> Austrian firm
> > (Steyr-Daimler-Puch or something???), which would make it sort of a
> kissing
> > cousin of the German engineered Quattro, right?! (Mandatory Audi
> content)
> 
> In this case a Mercedes would be the closest kin.
> 
> Igor Kessel
> '89 200TQ
> 
> Actually, I'm not totally sure this is THE closest.  Grnated
> Daimler>i.e.Daimler-Benz.  However, I had some information at one
> time that listed the manufacturing base for my VW Qtm Syn as being an
> Austrian firm.  As the info went, the Synchro systems were developed
> and some manufactured in Osterreich.  Can't remember the exact firm
> name, but I believe this could have been it!

Actually, all of the A8 (as well as all V8 before it) are built in the
Audi's austrian plant (at Gratz).

Igor Kessel
'89 200TQ