Re: Ignorant question on 80 vs. 90 models

["Remi Kwan" <kwanremi@nortel.ca>]

Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com> wrote:

>The 80 and 90 are virtually the same car.  They share the same shell and
>componentry.  The 80 was the "base" model and the 90 was the "luxury"
>model.  The 90 had leather, 80 had cloth.  The 80 had a 4 cylinder, the 90
>had a 5 cylinder.  Quattro used 5 cyl. on both.  The 90 had ABS standard,
>the 80 had it an an option (quattro only?).  The 90q had a neat trunk wing,
>the 80q had a trunk lip.

Correct, except not all 90's had leather.  My 88 90q has grey-red
corduroy seats, and I've seen several 89-91 vintage 90q's with the velour
looking cloth seats.   

Note that this is my experience with canadian cars.  It seems there were 
no canadian 80's produced??  Across the border in vermont I see lots of 
80's but here in canada I see only 90's all with ABS and the 5 cyl.

Remi
88 90q
94 90q