Gas tank location

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <970427000232_-1133190060@emout11.mail.aol.com> Kwattro@aol.com writes:

> Actually, Huw and I were talking as to why the coupe Didn't have a hatchback
> like my little vdub.  I managed to fit the 4 seats in without a problem.  Try
> that in a coupe.  Unlsess your face is eating seat, I doubt you can do it.
>  So why didn't they make a hatchback?  From the body looks, it's almost like
> they made the car to be a hatchback, and then at the last second said "Nah!
>  Let's screw em all up!"  I realize that on th coupe quattro and 4000 quattro
> it doesn't have another place to go, but on the coupe it does, under the
> trunk, like VW's.  Of course, audi probably didn't want to waste a bunch of
> time making the coupe a different car from the quattro coupe, or the 4000 for
> that matter.  I've answered my own question, but it still doesn't make sence.

It does if you remember that VW was, at the time, producing a genuine hatchback 
on a virtually identical ploor pan - the Passat.  

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