Re: Why do YOU own an Audi?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey J. Goggin <audidudi@mindspring.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 12:44 AM
Subject: Why do YOU own an Audi?


>With all this BMW v. Audi talk going on, I got to thinking: Why do I now
own
>Audis (an '89 200q as well as an '85 Ur-Q, not to mention a 4k
>racecar-in-training) when I used to own BMWs and quite happily so at that?
>
>I have my ideas about this but would like to hear someone else's first ...
>anyone?
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>   / |      _| o    | \       _| o  Jeffrey Goggin


Hi Jeffery;

    I live up here in the GTW (Great White North) and commute 150 kms daily
to work. I bought my first Audi (a '86 5ktq) for two reasons: the galvanized
body and AWD. I rapidly came to appreciate it's fine driving characteristics
and high quality interior and bodywork. After the first winter my commuting
buddy was so impressed with my car he sold his Baurus and bought a '87 5ktq
sight unseen from a dealer 500 km away (it was the only used q he could find
in the whole province).
    I now own a '91 200q. This car is superior to the '86 in reliability,
component quality,and fit and finish, although I preferred the steering and
brake feel of the '86. The 200q is rock solid in snow, slush, and ice; the
Torsen is an improvement over the locker diffs for highway driving in
adverse conditions (which is 6 months of the year up here). The bodies stand
up unbelievably well to the road salt; many people are amazed at how good my
car looks for a '91. This is a result of the excellent anti-corrosion
features engineered into the body as much as the galvanizing. After many
years of repairing rusting North American and European vehicles (and making
my own anti-corrosion body modifications), I was quite impressed to see the
drainage, ventilation, and bodywork features Audi had engineered into the
car.
    BTW, BMW's and Jag's are like robins up here; they dissappear in the
fall and re-appear in the spring. I suspect it has something to do with RWD
and all that torque! A few hardy MB owners tough it out; just pulled around
one stuck on black ice on an uphill bridge months ago. He was smokin' his
tires and going nowhere. Sure looked PO'd.

Fred Munro
'91 200q  248 k km