Re: Why They Should Have Built the Avus

["George Achorn" <coolidge@tidalwave.net>]

 ScharfR@aol.com wrote:

> Reality check.  Even when Audi toyed with the idea of building the AVUS,
it
> was with a $1,000,000 price tag.  Pretty small market.

Perhaps, but that is with developement of the W-12 engine involved. Were
they to have built it with an S version of the 4.2 V8 and a lesser twin
turbo 30V V6 the car may have been closer to the A8's price tag of $65K.
That is in the neighborhood of the 911 and much below Ferrari. The only
question would be numbers, that's hard to guess, and cannibalization of the
911 to some degree would have happened at anything under 100K. There are
too many people on the board of VWAG with Porsche blood in them to allow
that to go to market. Besides, it's such a gamble, it's easier to show why
not to build it.
	that's MHO
	Later-G