Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 02:51:41 GMT From: y_p_w <y_p_wnospamail.com> Subject: Re: congratulations, welcome, what took you so long?
WRXtreme wrote: > Jeff wrote: > >>"audi" <audinospamam.com> wrote in message >>news:c2finu$gcc$1nospamre.INS.cwru.edu... >> >>>Congratulations to Saab, Ford, Chrysler, and Nissan (Infiniti) for >>>the discovery of AWD in a sedan, hatchback or station wagon for the >>>2004 or 2005 model year. >> >>Chrysler's been making AWD sedans and wagons since the late '70s (the >>AMC Eagle -- AMC was acquired by Chrysler in the 80s). >> >>So I guess that Chrysler discovered this long before Audi. >> >>Jeff > > > And lets not forget the Eagle Talon, in AWD form w/ turbo it was/is a very > good platform to race with. That was a rebadged Mitsubishi Eclipse, which was also sold as the Plymouth Laser. It was built by a Chrysler/Mitsubishi joint venture in Normal, Illinois called Diamond-Star Motors.