name this audi (Audi a girls car...What!?!?)

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

Interesting...  I stand corrected (fully erect, no jibes)...  I have often 
thought about buying the Audi history book that Robert Bentley sells...  
Perhaps I should read that, and then I will be less likely so be incorrect, at 
least about the 'silver arrows'...  ;-)
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Quoting Gordon Forbess <gforbess@attglobal.net>:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:50:21 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I beg to disagree here...  I watched a documentary on Auto Union some time 
> >ago, and they stated that Auto Union coined that term in the thirties... 
> They 
> >set several speed records with those cars...  Mercedes may have used it
> later, 
> >but Audi had it first...
> 
> Google references say Alfred Neubauer, the MB team manager, coined the
> phrase in 1934 at Nurburgring for the Mercedes entries.  The confusion
> may be that the Auto Union cars were actually the first to run with
> the silver color (earlier in 1934 at AVUS) and the MBs were then white
> - the national racing color of Germany at the time.
> 
> For Nurburgring, Mercedes stripped the paint to make the 750kg weight
> limit and the "silver arrow" name was applied to them by Neubauer.  I
> got this from:  http://www.auto-union.info/history/intro.htm  Many
> Mercedes racing teams have used the name since, including the McLaren
> F1 team.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 88 Mercedes 300CE (silver, of course)
> 75 Mk1/Drake 1.9
> http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm
> 
>