RE: Can someone give me some info to refute this?

[quattro <quattro@acacianet.com>]

<much snippage' throughout>
>>What a joke.  The all powerful "quattro" isn't even the real system they use.
>There are several different "generations" of the Q system.  It is also not
>the "all powerful."  It is more difficult to drive in a skid situation,

Not always 'more difficult' but definitely different. There are things that you can do with quattro AWD that simply do not work with FWD/AWD. 

You must know how to use  'power tools' or you might hurt yourself!


>>All those wins, all those supposed victories, was all just BS.  I don't blame
>>BMW for getting angry, Audi is using a non-production product on their race
>Like half the stuff in a race car is ever "production product"...even
>"stock" car racing, the body is completely different, they just have a
>kevlar shell that looks sorta like the real thing(ie, escort, etc.)  The
>engine is ripped out of something else, and the end result is a car that,
>if the shell was removed, looks and is nothing like what drives on the
>roads(yet they use the term "stock car" racing.  Go figure.)

Very simply, It's historical. They _were_ stock cars when NASCAR started out in 1948.

>This all traces back to uses and what YOU need and want.  If you want a
>serious race car, you should not buy a bloated, galvanized steel,
>full-sized luxury sedan.  

Exactly what he said.

-glen