Re: quattro is a hit with CAR

[Allan Jones <ampj@tiac.net>]

> "lost the plot" here in the US...yeah okay...a tweeked A41.8tq would be
> nice...but what else is there today??? I truly miss the I5.

	How can you possibly miss the I5, don't you make love with one every
day? You do have and drive a 4Ks quattro, no? And the quattros did come
with the wonderful 2.x I5, did they not? Why, then, are you complaining?
;-) 
	Seriously, though, I understand where you are coming from. I own and
drive a 2.2 I5 myself and ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! The only disappointing
feature is of course the lack of power, which of course, is somewhat
solved by adding a turbo(which I'd love to do to my CGT!). It makes some
of the most original and rarest sounds! IMHO, it offers the most exotic
sound for_the_money, not to mention reliability, sturdiness, efficiency,
and of course originality. I *will* miss it too, but it still lives
strong. And just because it is no longer in production, does not mean it
is history. You never know, maybe someone will transplant the
turbocharged I5 out of an S4 into an A4!
 
> happy (if not happier) with a clean ur-q, a turbo'ed and tweeked 4kq, or
> 5ktq. All of these cars embody more of what quattros were once really 
> about more than anything imported to the US today...

	Maybe so, but that is prolly because refinement takes away edges that
give character.

> broke), but I like the selection of US quattros from the last decade far more
> than the present...at least we have a nice used market for these wonderful
> machines.

	I am currently broke too, but I have to disagree, I would absolutely
LOVE to be driving a manual A4 turbo q with all the possibilities out
there for performance improvements.

						Allan