Re: New Audi ad

["Jouko Haapanen" <joukoh@vtoy.fi>]

Yes, indeed.  The car is an Audi 200 quattro, and the commercial was filmed
in Lahti, Finland on the K120 ski jump.  The cable was for safety, as were
special emergency "claws" under the car if trouble arose.

Jouko Haapanen
Pori, Finland

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> From: Hussey, Dan <husseyd@rayovac.com>
> To: 'beels@technologist.com'; 'quattro@coimbra.ans.net'
> Subject: FW: New Audi ad
> Date: 11. heinäkuuta 1998 00:51
> 
> 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
> >