That's correct. When all the facts were in no fault with the car was ever shown to exist, other than the fact that the pedal layout was perhaps a little further over to the left of the footwell than was found on most american cars.
No faulty brakes were ever found, and many people demonstrated the fact that there was absolutely no way the engine could ever move the car if the brakes were applied. But that didn't matter - the "Unintended Acceleration" hysteria wasn't going to be stopped by mere facts. Audi discontinued the car in the US (replacing it, a year later, with a model using the European nomenclature) On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:21:34PM -0400, John Mullan wrote: > I believe it was the 5000. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "steve harley" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:34 PM > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: sudden stop > >> On 2010-04-15 13:18 , Bruce Walker wrote: >>> But because Audi was unable to positively prove driver error it >>> ultimately resulted in them discontinuing the model line in question >>> (the 100 and 90?) >> >> it was about 20 years earlier, not the 90/100 models, but the Audi Fox >> in the 70s; i could be off since i'm not looking it up; i remember my >> high school math teacher had one >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
