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[QSHIPQ <QSHIPQ@aol.com>]

mike, bart, sarge, matt, mike:
I smile at the responses (and a bow to Unk Bart, welcome back, the trip to
dallas, albeit a "guzzler" didn't seem to affect you verbarius character) to
the heretical talk in the subjective I placed on this list.  Let me assure
each of you, my subjective list of vehicles hardly requires me to be
excommunicated from the God of Rings Church for lack of tythe.  My current
stall includes a highly tweeked 5ktqw, a mildly tweeked 5ktqw, and a soon to
be wild 84 Urq (oh, and the 1400cc FJ1100 for the acceleration fixes).

As a rule, I banter many a time with "subjective" evaluations of performance.
I compare them all, apples and oranges.  Sarge's MacGuyver knife is the best
analogy to the quattro I've seen in a long time.  Unfortunately, as the 90's
fall to the wayside, the spoon and fork attachment called awd, can be argued
to be useful at the expense of the 'wholeness' of perfomance.  When the
Bavarian boys start making locking 'bucks' with equal and better precision,
one starts to question the slickness of the awd toys.  Me, I firmly advocate
both, and that, as I see it, is Audi's problem, not Bmw's.

When we speak of the future of marques, it's in the bread and butter and the
performance cars both, that the company can be evalled as a whole.  Right now,
I can aswage all arguments with the simple math.  A shiney new A8 hits the
$65+k mark.  For that, this explorer scout sees a good oportunity to buy one
540i to go, and have 10 grand to buy a '91 200tq for the days the 5er needs to
stay in the pocket.  Given the precision of some of the competitions'
odinance, those days are not as bountiful as some MacGuyvers would like to
think, and audi once enjoyed.

I also must commend BMW for dragging the competition (audi included) kicking
and screaming into the perfomance car market.  The next M5 alone, has to be
making the boys in Stuttgart sleep a little less with the objectively
formidible 993tt.  All for under 100 grand to boot.  And they crank out the
bread and butter 3/5/28 series cars with just as much aplumb, and those cars
alone stand up to the competition.  That's before they plop in the M-unition.
And they 'plop' with an abandon that brings heads up from the boys with their
hands in their pockets.  

I don't make a habit of objectively evaluating cars, I read those numbers all
the time (and as some know here, can pick off a bunch of the published numbers
without reference).  I plant my butt and say let's see what kinda knife ya
gots here.  And start a' whittlin.  

I haven't given up hope that audi will see the light of performance, I believe
it will have to (hey guys that includes finding some decent binders, btw) to
play in the field it chose to grow it's roots.  Right now the marketing of the
spoon and fork for low cf surgery, has less of an advantage comparing the
razor sharp young slick bucks, adding Bridgestone stickers and traction
control to a balanced blade and handle.

Carve away gentleman, your presentations intrigue me.  Sure would like Audi to
be the one dragging the rest of the world to a better knife.  Maybe now that
the junior knives are selling, we will see that start to happen.  

My .02

Scott Justusson
QSHIPQ@aol.com
'87 5ktqwRS2
'86 5ktqw
'84 Urq