(QQ, Summer 2002) — Colleen and I left an unusually warm St. Paul on 15 February bound for the little town of Enontekio in Finland, about 200km inside the arctic circle, for what was to be a trip of a lifetime (although it may just be the first of a few!) Yes our friends thought that we were extremely weird, why would anyone living in Minnesota go somewhere even colder for a vacation in February? Many of them will never understand, but then most of them believe that driving is what you do to work and back every day! After a brief stop in Amsterdam we arrived in a cold and gloomy Helsinki on Sunday afternoon (a day early so that we could be over the jet lag by the time we got to drive).

  (QQ, Spring 2002) — Over the past few years, visitors to Ingolstadt have been greeted with a large-scale construction project as they made their way into the Audi factory grounds. What was going on-a new production line? No, the scale of the project was too small. It looked like more offices, as would be expected from a company that has experienced such huge growth over the past six years.

  (QQ, Spring 2002) — Technology can be a servant of ours. We can also be its servant. OnStar on board Telematics promise us to provide emergency services, roadside assistance, stolen vehicle tracking, remote door unlock, accident assist, remote vehicle alert, route support, ride assist, and concierge services. It is constantly monitoring your location, and can observe your vehicle speed, as well as most of the operating parameters of your entire car. It utilizes cellular and GPS satellite technologies for its location and communications technology.

(QQ, Winter 2002) — Scene is a Psychiatrists office in Encino California.

Therapist: So tell me about your fascination with Station Wagons?

Patient: When I was about 9, I had a girlfriend named Sandy, and her mother had a Coppertone color Pontiac Tempest wagon.

Therapist: What was so special about that?

Patient: One weekend, her Mother invited me to go camping with them up to Sequoia National Park. We packed all of our sleeping bags, and camping supplies and there was still enough room for us to lay down in the back. When we stopped on the way to get some more supplies, her Mom left us in the car, and that is when I got my first kiss from Sandy.

  (QQ, Winter 2002) — Look for a new Audi racing team in the hotly contested Speedvision World Challenge Touring series. Located in the mountains above Santa Cruz, California, is a combination racecar engineering consultation/road car tuning product/Audi race team called Stasis Engineering. Operating out of an old barn, much the same way Ken Tyrell started his famous F1 team way back when, Quattro Club USA member (and QCUSA driving school instructor) Paul Lambert heads up the Stasis Engineering Team and drives the team's Audi A4 racecar.