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Stumbled Upon The Following Old Clip..All Audi for a Delta
AND THE WINNER IS...For meritorious use of allegory by an executive of a
German car company, we present the coveted crossed schnitzels with
sauerbraten clusters award to Gerd Klauss, VP in charge of Audi of America.
Klauss, who earlier this year described a certain engine's wimpy output
as "not pulling the sausage off the plate," delivered new analogies at
a recent press conference. On Audi price reductions and adding Quattro
as a stand-alone option, "Now we at least can rock 'n' roll with the
competition;' on the price reduction of a fully optioned A6 sedan
($5,600 less in 95 than 94), a margin which remains, "even if you
load the beast." And, finally, on a highly respectable but not yet perfect
3rd place finish in the JD Power VSI survey, "That is not enough to pull
the cow off the ice." But it'll certainly make the cow start skating,
if it's so inclined.