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On Jan 5, 9:43*pm, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember John MacLeod
saying something like:

Sadly, Audi cars of today do not conform to the standards
of Horch any more than the current Audi customer base fits the target
customer profile adopted by Horch.


Today?
Go back forty years and they were cheap **** under the skin, same as any
other make.


Horch was a lot more than forty years ago :-). And no, I've never
owned one or wished to, though those produced under Horch would be
much more desirable than contemporary competitors.

John