This series has featured a few 1980s Audis in recent months, including a couple of unintended accelerators and this crypto-Audi VW Quantum Syncro wagon. But what about the Coupe GT, which had an interesting-looking Giugiaro design (we’ll forget that Giugiaro did the Hyundai Excel) and offered American car shoppers a German alternative to sporty front-wheel-drive Japanese coupes such as the Honda Prelude and (1986 and later) Toyota Celica? You don’t see many of these things in 21st-century America, but Coloradans love Audis— even the non-Quattro ones— and I knew a Coupe GT would show up at a Denver yard sooner or later. (Read More…)
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Tomifobia - You sound like a disgruntled third party.
car_guy2010 - Yes. YESSSSS!!! More features like this and less of Bertel’s dyke-bashing please!
28-Cars-Later - That’s nice to hear… the Panther is obviously a superior choice :)
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