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Does Audi get things wrong from time to time?

In your reply to a question about Audi regarding oil consumption of one litre per 1,000 miles, I forgot to ask you if I can tell Audi that a well known car journalist told me, “if German car manufacturers get something wrong, they are generally very reluctant to admit it." I would not mention your name, or could I? Sorry to trouble you again.

Asked on 18 August 2012 by HW, Germany

Answered by Honest John
Better not. I'll tell you a story about an Audi launch. On this launch was a guy called Alan Anderson (yes, really). And also a guy called Zog Ziegler (absolute truth). So we'd walked half a kilometre from the airport terminal to a multi story carpark where a girl was handing out the keys. Luckily, we got ours before she decided she had better do it in alphabetical order. She had Zog Ziegler standing in front of her and Alan Anderson still waiting for his bag at the airport terminal. A further half kilometre into our drive, the route on the beautifully art directed and produced route map was blocked and, judging by the amount of dust and dirt, it had been blocked for reconstruction for at least six months. Do you think Audi was going to warn us of that before we set out and have us deface its route maps? Not a chance.
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