RE: Sport quattros

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Eaton Dave <dave.eaton@minedu.govt.nz> wrote:

>agree about the windscreen.  but afaik, the doors are the same.  i'm sure
>that they were not changed for the sport.  afaik about the only body panel
>which wasn't.  (obviously the a-pillar on the doors has changed, but the
>length hasn't).  pretty sure that the c-pillar hasn't changed either.  time
>to look up the lewandowski (sp?) book and compare photos with the audi
>driver article.

>anyone know different?

Looking at Quentin Willson's The Ultimate Classic Car Book (Dorling
Kindersley, ISBN 0 7513 0208 2- get it if you love cars, if only for the
superb photography)  and at the German 'Top of the line' magazine, 1/97,
I'd say the doors are identical to the standard items dimensionally.
Comparing this to the German UrQ brochure, which has a pretty good straight
side view of the car.
I'd also say that the windscreen is identical, but I'd have to scan both
pictures and overlay them to make absolutely sure. That'll be hard, as the
best picture in the Willson book is printed over two pages (sigh!)

In 3/4 front or rear view, the Sport looks about as wrong as it can get.

It is however very impressive with its 400 hp @ 6500, 640 Nm(!) @ 3500.

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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