Quality Audi Advert

[URSIMPO]

sorry wrong link. here's a good one, and quite apt due to the recent cold snap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JlvVdAmkTM

[Dan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgXEqX-JH0

[rj scotty]

No other car brand would work in this subtle form of advertisement

[UUUdirs2newcastle]

My Old General Manager was a Dealer Principal/GM when the RS2 was launched, and he said he saw a 'fun draft' of an magazine/billboard advertisement for the RS2 in 1994, and it just had a photo of a RS Blau RS2, and the text underneath read something like 'My other Car is a 911, but today I am in a hurry'

I remember my dad telling me about it when I was little, (My Dad was a Audi/VW Main Dealer at the time), but I never did see anything myself.

I have looked everywhere, but my old GM said I will probably never see it as it was not 'passed' by the Porsche Marketing team as it was not agreed that it was a good piece of marketing for Porsche GB/AFN as the RS2 was faster by the said Porsche 911 at the time.

Has anyone heard about this?

[GavS2]

Know thats sounds cool, i'd love to see that, but i bet porsche hid it away and destroyed all evidence

[URSIMPO]

I heard that's why the RS2 is an avant. Porsche wouldn't help Audi on the S2 coupe, as it resembled their own 'products' too much.

[UUUdirs2newcastle]

I heard that's why the RS2 is an avant. Porsche wouldn't help Audi on the S2 coupe, as it resembled their own 'products' too much.

Apparently it was agreed that Audi would not produce a 2 door vehicle that would produce more than 250 horsepower using the Audi Coupe Chassis, and that Porsche would not have anything to do with a project that would be considered a threat to the flagging 911/944/964 sales. (Porsche was in deep s**t at the time with Global Profits)

[Dan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RddxtACnaJY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHH-726_8lA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOS_DG90wg

Some of these are brilliant

[GavS2]

Audi should of done the RS2 thereselves, they never needed Porsche's help again after the RS2. I guess its just a piece of history. Not knocking Porsche or the RS2 but Audi had the Know how did'nt they, just look at there own history.

[UrS4boy]

I heard that's why the RS2 is an avant. Porsche wouldn't help Audi on the S2 coupe, as it resembled their own 'products' too much.

MTM tried to get Audi to let them do an RS2 in a coupe but that didn't fly. But it did result in MTM' RSR S2 coupe. (see pdf)

[URSIMPO]

Audi weren't the only manufacturer to collaborate with Porsche. Does anyone remember the Mercedes 500e? It was a W124 chassis with a 5.0 v8 shoehorned in to the front. Also, didn't Porsche work on the Seat Ibiza?

[UrS4boy]

Audi weren't the only manufacturer to collaborate with Porsche. Does anyone remember the Mercedes 500e? It was a W124 chassis with a 5.0 v8 shoehorned in to the front.

In the early 1990's Porsche was having a little financial difficulty when they took on the 500E as a project for Mercedes-Benz who were having their own problems keeping up the likes of the BMW M5 and the Vauxall/Opel Lotus Carlton. Later, as the 500E project was winding down, Porsche was again looking at having over capacity. At the same time, Audi was looking to inject (pun intended) some excitement into its product line but was too busy with the development of the B5 A4 and the new A8 to do the work themselves. The result was the development and construction of the RS2 using Porsche engineers and production line capacity otherwise left twiddling their thumbs by the completion of the 500E assignment.

[HMS-S6]

In the early 1990's Porsche was having a little financial difficulty when they took on the 500E as a project for Mercedes-Benz who were having their own problems keeping up the likes of the BMW M5 and the Vauxall/Opel Lotus Carlton. Later, as the 500E project was winding down, Porsche was again looking at having over capacity. At the same time, Audi was looking to inject (pun intended) some excitement into its product line but was too busy with the development of the B5 A4 and the new A8 to do the work themselves. The result was the development and construction of the RS2 using Porsche engineers and production line capacity otherwise left twiddling their thumbs by the completion of the 500E assignment.

All of the above are reasons i love 90's performance saloons! It may be swearing on here bit a Lotus Carlton is the top of my list!!

[sam80quattro]

my dad had a system porsche seat ibiza lol what a heap of ****

[URSIMPO]

my dad had a system porsche seat ibiza lol what a heap of ****