Re: how to connect the A4's radio ?

["Linus D. Toy" <linust@mindspring.com>]

for as long as i can remember, VW products have always had radios wired
directly to the battery--start with a 68 type iii (squareback), a '69 type i
(bug), a '73 type ii (microbus), a couple rabbits, and all the audis i've
known since (5 of them).  part of this may be because radios didn't seem to
be intended in the first place--they were mounted UNDER the dash in the
squareback, not IN it.

given that the early VW experience is from (i believe) before VW owned Audi,
I wonder if this is a German thing, a VW influenced Audi thing or just
coincidentally VW & Audi followed the same philosophy?

At 06:37 PM 1/1/97 GMT, Phil Payne wrote:
>In message <19970101114157.6317.qmail@sylvia.tummy.com> >> Why doesn't the
radio turn off?!?
>
>I can offer a personal theory ...
> 
>Way back when the ur-quattro was just a potential future, Audi got quite 
>interested in ergonomics.  One of the companies they talked to at that 

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