Re: More Audi copies

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In a message dated 4/22/1999 "Buchholz, Steven" 
<Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com> writes:

<< I really doubt that Honda has spies at Audi to intentionally copy their 
designs ... you would imagine that they would be more interested in copying a 
European marque with a greater presence in the US. >>

An interesting story from one of the times I was being tempted to buy an ur-q 
(a temptation I have yet to succumb to...). In around 1989/90 or so, an Acura 
dealership (Acura of Mountain View) had a black '85 ur-q for sale that had 
only 10k miles on it at the time. The story was that Acura US had purchased 
the car new from Audi and had "reverse engineered" it (read took everything 
apart and put it back together to see what went into building it, cost to 
build, etc.), and the miles were mostly test miles. That was enough to scare 
me off from that one. The person (sales guy) at the dealership who told the 
story was a quattro fan himself and seemed honest about it...of course ymmv.

There does seem to be a similarity in design at times between Audi and Honda. 
(Though I hate to admit it since I tend to despise the H-word cars) Who 
copied who? Hard to say...kinda like sorting out the battles between our 8 
and 9 year old boys ("he copied me").

Mike Veglia
87 5kcstq