Re: Avus model and Questions, and producition....

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

>OK here are the questions/comments:
>1. Can someone explain to me what the W-12 is...i picture it as 3 bancks 
>of four cylinders, two like a normal "V" engine with the third being 
>vertical...but i am most likely wrong...

You are correct

>2. What are the facts and figures on it...audi of brazil has it going 
>340kph and 0-100kph in 3 seconds....is that true?? 

Again correct based on HP/Weight  estimates... The car was never road 
tested, the engine was a mockup.

>3.  The Avus was apparently a set of ten, at least that is what the guy 
>from the sharper image told me...he seemed to knowa bit about it and told 
>me that there is a woman living by that store that owns two of the 
>ten...they were let go by audi at 1 mil a piece...i am beginning to think 
>that it is true since there was a thread a few days ago stating that hte 
>price was a mil and yadda, yadda, yadda..hehe...

HAAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!  They guy from the 
Sharper Image just tried to sell you the Brooklyn bridge....   There are 
NO Avus's in the US other than your nice shiny Revell model...


Later!


Eric Fletcher S.O.C.
'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B
St. Louis, MO

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