Re: Audi is kickin' *ss!

[ti@amb.org (Ti Kan)]

Mark L. Chang writes:
> ...
> Audi has
> displayed this kind of year-over-previous-year sales increase for 48 of
> the last 50 months.

Indeed.  I can feel it when I went to the San Jose auto show last month.
Traffic was high in the Audi area and this was in stark contrast to the
situation just a few years ago.  You can see it in people's interest
level in the cars.  I overhear people's comments as they look at the
various models "I want this", "gorgeous", "they'll sell a million of
these"... etc.  Audi is even "kewl" with youngsters now.  I saw a teenage
dude sitting in the driver's seat of the A8q, hands on the steering wheel,
daydreaming a drive of his life... (maybe he saw "Ronin" and this is about
as close as it'll get :-)).

Too bad there wasn't a TT on display.  It would have been dynamite.

The tide has finally turned.  Audi is on a roll here, and Japanese cars
have definitely lost their edge.  "Automobile" magazine's ten best list
has mostly German cars... the "best luxury sedan" is an Audi A8.

Heck, I even get asked about my A4 on several occasions.

-Ti
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