Re: V8 5 Speed the best Quattro ever made

["DRoxburgh" <DRoxburgh@email.msn.com>]

four doors good, two doors better

sorry George 1984, Animal Farm etc......................

Urq most sought after.............


-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>
To: AQUATTRO4U@aol.com <AQUATTRO4U@aol.com>
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 07 July 1998 18:42
Subject: Re: V8 5 Speed the best Quattro ever made


>>I'm here to share with you a rare opportunity in life.
>Oh wow.  I can go to sleep tonight knowing my problems are over! :)
>
>>I am selling the most sought after Quattro of all. The V8 Quattro 5 Speed.
>That's semi-true.  The V8 is certainly NOT one of the most sought Quattros.
>The V8 5 speed is, but ONLY for people who are looking for a V8 in the
>first place.  The 5 speed is the only V8 that doesn't seriously blow
>cookies.  The automatics are virtually worthless.  Dealers can't GIVE them
>away.  I saw one sit on a lot in Boston for 3-4 months.  Finally, the price
>started dropping $1k every week until it finally dissapeared after hitting
>a low of about $10k.
>
>>The '91 V8 Quattro 5 speed is a very rare car and this one is Pearl White.
>righty-o.  Not to mention the parts are fairly "rare"(translation:
>expensive) as well!  That car is so kludged together that it shares next to
>nothing with other models.
>
>>It only has 81k miles. This car runs and sounds awesome.
>Hmm.  Seems like fairly low milage.  Typical on a 1991 Audi is 100k
>according to KBB.
>
>Of course, I always evaluate a car on how it sounds!
>
>>Price is $20.5k
>
><cough>  Try 15k to even get someone to show interest.  You're selling a
>mid-vintage V8, not a 92/93.  $20k would get you a lousy-condition 92 S4,
>not a 91 V8.  A 200q 20v is worth, with 60k miles, maybe $15k.
>
>>Please feel free to e-mail me at AQUATTRO4U@aol.com
>Gee, looks like someone has a dealership(A Quattro for you?  Corny.  AQ4U
>would have been better.)
>
>Considering the V8 is several hundred pounds heavier than a 200, and the
>200 is easily boosted from 217(better hp/weight ratio stock) to 285 for
>$500, kicking the V8's butt and having a better HP/weight ratio than many
>sports coupes, I would say the 200q 20v is the best Quattro made for
>_consumers_, not racing.  The RS2 wagon comes in close 2nd, its main
>problem being the astronomical price and extremely low production build,
>not to mention it's not really a true/whole audi(yhea, they built it, but
>Porsche finished up the job, which is kinda weak on audi's part.  Seems
>more like a marketing decision than anything else.)
>
>
>Brett
>91 200q 20v (my car will help Arun's 200q 20v beat up your V8.)
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>Brett Dikeman
>brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net
>~)-|
>Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt.  Qui annus est?
>Te audire non possum.  Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
>Ita, scio hunc 'sig file' veterem fieri.
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