Re: New GTV/Spider sales and FWD

[JJK1204@domain.elided]

seed-in writes:

<< >I see a lot of Audi TTs around, and these cars have standard FWD.  Quattro
 >is an upgrade.  People are so used to FWD that I don't see it as an issue.
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 i couldn't agree w/ewe more, BUT... quattro is an upgrade *only* if offered!
 :>)  and, at least in the dc metro area, the preponderance of audi's *i* see
 *are* quattros - a *wery* worthwhile $1500 option to that make, imho...  i'd 
be
 curious to see the breakout of fwd vs rwd sales for the audi's - anyone?
 (april?)
  >>
doug,

If I remember correctly the $1500 Quattro option is rather recent, in the 
last few years around the last redesign of the A4. Before this time it was a 
$7k - $8k option. This will skew the data and it raises the question of both 
marketing and economy of scale, neither of which it appears that Alfa has in 
necessary quantities.

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