A 1987 Audi 5000 S sedan with manual transmission and Quattro all-wheel-drive system, found in a Denver self-service wrecking yard.
pedal. Much highly publicized arglebargle followed, with the upshot being that everyone involved looked bad and U.S.-market Audi sales — not just the 5000,Audis — fell off a cliff and didn't recover until well into the 1990s.
This 5000 has a five-speed manual transmission, so it wouldn't have been subject to the alleged problem; in fact, the original buyer may have scored a screaming deal on this car, which was built in June 1987 and thus hit a depopulated showroom floor at the height of the Unintended Acceleration hooraw.peeled off the extra bills to get the turbocharged engine, so naturally aspirated 5000 S Quattros were rare beasts. This straight-five displaced 2.
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