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19-07-15, 09:03 PM | #11 | |
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19-07-15, 09:10 PM | #12 | |
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19-07-15, 09:17 PM | #13 |
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I have to disagree .... It's the dullest car they ever released . The style and charisma of a veruca . It may have been a leap in quality and substance but no
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19-07-15, 09:18 PM | #14 |
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Dave, I hated my B5 A4.
However, arguably, this was the model sales wise which started the Audi brand we have today. The TV ad for the B5 A4 is quite ironic to watch these days, as the guy in the ad is probably more likely to aspire to a current Audi. |
19-07-15, 10:28 PM | #15 | |
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Like our pre A series Audi's when did you last see a B5 on your daily commute.
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25-07-15, 06:17 PM | #16 |
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i think that's an awful lot of money for a bog standard 80
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25-07-15, 08:36 PM | #17 | |
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But what I would say that without the earlier 80/100/Coupe S there would be no B3. As regards being nothing special, sorry I used to leave Mexicos behind in my 100GL in the 70's. Audi were in a different place than Ford at that point but I believe they had something that could have competed against them in rallies in the early 70's had they the financial clout to do so. In the days before mass produced fuel injection and turbos, a twin choke carb was the kick you needed to leave them behind, they used to be marketed as the 3 litre car in 2 litre format, that was for a reason. The later models of the C1 100 had a slight bump in the front slam panel. The aim of this was to slot in the 5 pot engine that eventually went into the C2 and then the quattro. Had the models C2 and quattro not happened (not the technology)... your guess is as good as mine. One chap in Germany has dropped a 5 pot plus turbo into a C1, another has put quattro drive train on a Coupe S. Both are awesome motors. I think the main point is that a Coupe S is no where near as good as 2005T and shouldn't be compared, although I prefer the saloon C1 to the Coupe S, I think they handle better, but to dismiss them as nothing special belies the over 1 million that were made and sold to a market in the 60's and 70's that must have felt they were something special. When I bought my 75 100GL in 79 I certainly thought so. Just sayin....
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25-07-15, 09:08 PM | #18 | |
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In the coupe in particular, you can see how the lines were evolved, but in the process, smoothed out a little, maybe too much. The 'sporting' heritage doesn't carry forward from the B2, to my mind. Externally, It lacks presence. No doubt about it, it's technology moving forward, and maybe stands as a defining point between how they got here, and where they wanted to go. Looking at that particular car in the ad, it says 'well cared for, reliable, inexpensive, quality motoring'. It doesn't say exciting. Rather akin to an obsessive historian getting excited about the weird bricks in an otherwise nondescript building that the rest of us wouldn't notice.
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26-07-15, 05:56 AM | #19 | ||
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Yes this one is very high priced for what it is even with the milage and condition but if it was sub £500 like most you would have more fun keeping it on the boil racing around in. Should be cheap on fuel, cheap to repair if the worst happened etc Quote:
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26-07-15, 08:43 AM | #20 | |
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I've been trying to crop it and resize, but it loses too much detail.
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