Re: S6 Model Years

["Erskine Family" <erskine@palmnet.net>]

Any idea of the vin number split on the Quattro IV?
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From: Virtual Bob <h93young@creighton.edu>
To: <erskine@palmnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: S6 Model Years


> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 erskine@palmnet.net wrote:
>
> >I have been watching the classifieds for a 96/97 S6 and have not seen
any,
> >then I checked the S-Cars registry and did not see any US owners listed
> >after 95.5.  Were these cars sold in 96/97? Any big changes after 94/95.
>
> No S6 were sold after 95.5 in the U.S. due to that darn engine smog
> management thing (the name escapes me for now... I think it's "OBD" or
> something). The same S6 was being continued to be sold in Canada, Europe,
> etc.
>
> The big change was between 95.5 vs. 95 & before. The 95 and before used
> quattro III where 95.5 used quattro IV (the A4, new A6, and A8). The q-III
> had manually lockable differential; the q-IV had the elctronically
> lockable kind (very famous with the Mercedes ML SUV; nobody knew Audi
> did it before Mercedes Benz).
>
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