Re: FW: New Audi ad

[Mike Larosa <mlarosa@v8q.East.Sun.COM>]

I agree Bob,  I just checked out the photo's too.  The front side marker
light tells all.  It's a 5000/200.

Mike L.
90 V8
89 100 Avant


>Checked out the photos.  Terrible quality but - agreed.  That ain't no 90q.
> Did Audi run similar ads for other models?
>
>At 04:51 PM 7/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>OK Guys!
>
>You over 40 crowd needs to get your eyes checked! ;)  
>
>This is clearly a late 80's Audi 200 Quattro.  Remember, this is the
>euro-model, so it has the euro-bumpers and hence why it looks smaller.
>Definately too rounded to be a 4000, and too big and boxy to be a 90.  
>
>If that is not enough to prove it, in one part of the commercial, the
>driver changes gears (interior shot) and you see the manual diff locks
>on the dash (5000 style) ...hence, before the Torsen and the 90Q.
>
>Later,
>Dan
>
>> ----------
>> From:        Richard Beels[SMTP:beels@technologist.com]
>> Sent:        Friday, July 10, 1998 1:31 PM
>> To:  quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>> Subject:     RE: New Audi ad
>> 
>> Nope.  Doesn't look like an 88 90q.  Or at least not like the one in
>> _my_
>> driveway....
>> 
>> At 03:53 PM 7/10/1998 , you wrote:
>> >
>> >> One small correction, Brett.  Unless they did this
>> >> commercial for two
>> >> different models, it was a red '88 90q.  Exactly like
>> >> the one I bought back then.
>> >
>> >Actually, don't blame Brett, the reference to that commercial
>> >was mine, not his.
>> >
>> >BUT... Is it really a 90q? I found the tape this morning, took a
>> >pair of digital snapshots of it, and posted them to:
>> >
>> >http://www.msu.edu/user/jenkinsg/whataudi.htm
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>      Richard
>>      88 90Q - <insert pithy witticism here>
>>      88 Golf GTi - PRO Rally
>> 
>
>
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   Bob
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