Re: Audis

[nizam@domain.elided]

Here here, Brian and Giovanni.

If anything, Audi has reclaimed the public's thirst for an alternative, 
well built, fun, import car.  I'm in Southern California right now and 
driving around Orange County, you're sure to see an Audi A4 every 
two-three minutes on the freeways, A6's and A8's follow respectively.

Kids love those cars.  They buy their A4's and race them out, it's very, 
very cool.  The executive types end up buying A6's and the more sporting 
of them opt for the 2.7-liter twin-turbo motor which will kick any stock 
Alfas at this time.  It's encouraging to see this.

While I am down here, I also visited Advanced Motorsports Solutions in 
Costa Mesa and they are in the process of building an Audi S4 race car.  
The owner was an Alfisti once but found good business hotting up Audi's 
and VW's and guess what, with Audi's increasing market share he's doing 
well himself!

Alfa could have done the same, and whatever their reasons were for not 
doing so, it's moot now.  The market is more crowded than ever and it 
would be even harder now for them to enter the market.

It's too bad, 'cause my heart is with Alfa but I fear it's time for a 
change, i.e. either I move to Germany to buy Alfas or I buy a German 
car.

Nizam
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