name this audi (Audi a girls car...What!?!?)

[peter at thescirocco.com (peter)]

I can see why they were able to set records...

Check out the power to weight ratios:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/c3.htm

375 hp with 1650 lbs... :)
And that was 1935!!!

I picked up an '85 German car magazine, that gave the specs for all the
cars in the world, and the Ur Sport was my favorite... I'll try to find
the spec sheet, but the the Sport version would totally spank the US
version. Audi never sold the Sport in the US, they were only gray market
cars.

The Ur Quattro that was spotted, was not a Sport, because the Sport
didn't have 4 headlights. 

Peter
http://thescirocco.com

From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of David Utley
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:50 AM
To: gforbess@attglobal.net
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Subject: Re: name this audi (Audi a girls car...What!?!?)


I beg to disagree here...  I watched a documentary on Auto Union some
time 
ago, and they stated that Auto Union coined that term in the thirties...
They 
set several speed records with those cars...  Mercedes may have used it
later, 
but Audi had it first...
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Quoting Gordon Forbess <gforbess@attglobal.net>:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:38:56 -0800, Randy <sirocco81@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >Auto Union had a couple of cars in the late 30's that dominated 
> >called the
> >"Silver Arrows"
> 
> That's a Mercedes term for their dominating LeMans cars of the early 
> 50s that has been applied to their later F1 and GT cars as well. 
> Supposedly one of their cars was just over the weight limit for a race

> and the paint was stripped at the last moment, revealing the aluminum 
> skin. Gordon
> 75 Scirocco/Drake 1.9
> http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm
>