Re: thread from hell

[paul.heneghan@bbc.co.uk (Paul Heneghan)]

From: quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)

>VAG have reorganised their dealerships around here.  By UK standards, I 
live
>in a relatively poor area - our Audi dealership has gone to Northampton, 
and
>Autohaus in Wellingborough has been rebadged "Volkswagen".  Even the spares 

>have gone, and it's a minimum of one working day for me to get Audi-unique
>parts.  The even further down-market towns north of here have Seat
>dealerships, using the VAG colour scheme.

I live near Evesham and until last year, I had a VW/Audi dealer 200yds from 
my house.  Then they lost the Audi franchise $%^&*!! - however, they can 
still order me parts (they never had them in stock anyway).

>Madness - utter madness.  Some child fresh from business school trying out
>the theories the other professional non-doers have cooked up.

Agreed - I can't see the logic in it - VWs and Audis are so similar that I 
cannot believe it to be cost effective to split them - must be some 
marketing or image thing.

Paul
paul.heneghan@bbc.co.uk
1984 Audi 80 quattro
1989 Audi 100 Avant