Christmas Presents - There is some Audi content - honest!

["Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>]

Hidden among the usual shirts, socks and grooming products were two products
of the lanky Jeremy Clarkson - both intended to help pay for his 355. A dire
video
with the only saving grace of having a short clip of Walter Rohrl piloting a
S1 at full bore - thankfully its at the beginning so you dont have to watch
the whole thing.
A book - "Hot 100" - much better. It is inaccurate in places (1945 was 25
years before 1969 not 15) but is not, as I expected, a homage to Ferrari
with a bit of Nissan Skyline thrown in, but covers all sorts - not just fast
cars but cars from everybody's past, models you probably owned and models
that you dreamed of owning. In a number of places he points out that a lot
of the cars in this book would also appear in a "Worst 100" if he was to
produce it.
This bit is for the European listers, as I doubt that our US friends would
recognise most of the following, but to give you an idea, some of the cars
he features are :-
 AlfaSud, Ford Cortina 1600E, Capri and Transit (!), Peugeot 504 Estate,
Triumph TR7 V8 and Volvo 123GT.
On the other hand, he likes the Ur quattro 20v (the car pictured is in fact
a WR 10v) - "That car, take it from me, is a life saver" - "...few cars have
been so complete". He also quite likes the A8 "smartarse durch technik"
although he compares it unfavourably to the XJR.

Dont rush out and buy either of them, but if you ever see the book on a
bargain rack (if it isn't there already) it is worth a quick look.

Jim Haseltine
88 Ur quattro