Re: A6 2.7t in stock in SF

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199910050741.DAA04540@audifans.com> Michael Sheridan Williams writes:

> I dont think its aoa that is having the problem seeing what we want, i
> think its germany that is hesitant to send over what len hunt wants.  I
> was able to talk with him at the historics, and he would love to see more
> powerful avants come over here.  That said, i think i have heard
> something for 2001 being the year of the avant, again..

He's changed his tune from when I spoke to him.  I wanted to know why
the UK was the only country in the world not to have the 1.8TQ.

He said it was his decision because he felt the extra capabilities of
quattro merited a larger engine and he wanted to differentiate the
1.8 and 2.8 more than the factory had done.  He took considerable flak
from about thirty members for this statement (it was a public Q&A) but
maintained that the German market needed lots of options to compete
feature by feature with the competition, but the English-speaking
markets were much simpler and just needed vertical positioning using
fewer and more standard packages.  He got an earful for that, too.

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 Phil Payne
 UK Audi quattro Owners Club
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