RE: ultimate audi?

[Eaton Dave <dave.eaton@minedu.govt.nz>]

ok, but would you have paid $90k usd for a usa-new rs2?  probably not.
that's what the suckers cost in the uk/nz (the only rhd markets).

you don't get the cars the rest of us do, but for the cars you do get, you
pay bugger all for them.  lets see, 25k usd for a '99 a4 2.8q, or <$50k nzd.
at the dealers here, they are asking around $80k nzd or $40k usd.  the only
car tax we pay is general gst (ie vat) of 12.5%.  so we're paying about $15k
usd more than you are, and we're *much* better off than many european
countries.....

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Bob [SMTP:mx@snet.net]
	Sent:	Friday, January 08, 1999 11:20 AM
	To:	Eaton Dave
	Cc:	'quattro@coimbra.ans.net'

	Eaton Dave wrote:
	> 
	> the release of the 300hp 4.2v8 a6q has got me thinking....
	> 
	> before the sport quattro in 1984, audi had no 300hp machines.  the
	> ur-quattro was the ultimate audi with 200 laggy hp.  post 1985 and
until the
	> rs2 arrived with 315hp in 1995, audi had no other 300hp machines,
the most
	> powerful was the 1989 ur-quattro 20v with 220hp (rip), and the
follow-on s2
	> with 220-230hp.  that's 10years folks.  as we say, that's a long
time
	> between drinks....
	> 

	Now look at the US. Audi has NEVER had a 300 hp car here until the
V8.
	The Sport never officially got here (did it?) the RS2 certainly
never
	did.  We really get the shaft here.

	Bob