Audi Reviews

A very pleasant and quite interesting little book analyzing the story of parsifal and the castle of the grail through the lens of male psychology.

Though it's treatment of the mythological story seems quite conscise it seems to fail to really bind this and it's psychological interpretations to any tangible real world experience of my male psyche. In a way it is to abstract, not tying things back to reality.

Thus it offered so far (finished it a few hours ago) no real insights or answers. How many questions and different ways to look at things and approaches to take as well as those experiences of catching your inner world tricking you it will induce will have to be seen.

All in all at 80 pages and it's small format a very pleasant and worthwile read.

A note about another reviewer's complaint about it being heavy on preachy christianism. I am normally quite allergic to christian preachyness in 'unrelated' books like these. And though I have noticed slight hints thereof, it is by no way as bad as the reviewer makes it look like.

Robert A. Johnson took me on a journey through my inner world. I read it several times, and review it periodically. The book is short and concise, yet leaves me wondering exactly where I am on my journey.

Robert Johnson is a life changer. I have read everything he has done several times. HE and SHE should be a required read for everyone. I recommend you read the book on your own sex first so that you become familiar with Johnson's style before prying into the opposite sex's mind. :) If you find some of the other self help books too trite and not very thought provoking, Robert Johnson is for you!

Having taken the better part of this last semester reading this book, I find myself with no strong inclination to rate this book in any particular direction.
As far as content goes it's rather thorough, Audi does manage to give a complete bottom up view of rationality. But, as he gets into the later stages of the book where the topic turns to ethical issues he gets a little presumptuous. Another issue I had was with Audi's homemade words. I recognize the fact that certain areas of philosophy have created their own technical nomenclature but some of his words are a bit of a stretch even for my liberal mind. Further, while not as hard to read as many other philosophy texts this was by no means a pleasure read, and if it had not been required reading I would have opted for more pleasurable tasks such as watching paint dry.
If you have a background in philosophy or epistemology (or are disposed to masochistic habits) I suggest you buy this book. After all, Audi does pull together his entire theory of rationality into one book, and this is no easy feat for anyone. But for those of you unaccustomed to technical, poorly written (for most philosophers, not to point a finger solely at Audi) philosophy texts, I say find an easier to read introductory book somewhere else.

I am a philosophical layman, but I am skeptical about the customer review of this book. (seller) gives you a look at the back cover. Read for yourself what other philosophers say about Audi's book.

Big two volumne manual. Electrical schematics are first rate, and exploded diagrams are very good. Unfortunately there is no troubleshooting info. If you have a flashing light on the dash, you have to spend many hours dredging through the diagrams and charts simply to figure out which of the bloody thermoswitches it is. Then when you do narrow it down, there is no info on what the correct sensor outputs should be.

If you know what you want to change, the book has good info. If you are trying to diagnose ... try again.

If you own the car, you should own this manual. For those of you who own these cars, and need service, you will be much better prepared for dealing with a mechanic. Fluids specs, full description of features, and service recommendations are included. For those of you who will work on their own car, you will find the "german method" for completing the work. This involves a "systems" approach, with systematic troubleshooting. Each system is explained in the text, and when I used this to troubleshoot a fuel system, all of the correct voltage and resistance values were in the manual. An absolute godsend when installing stereos, heater cores, etc, as the each of the approximately 2 billion VW/AUDI clip styles are covered (okay, I exaggerated)These manuals are derived from the manuals supplied to the dealers. Worth every cent.

It's so clear and solve all the problems I 've been stucked for years. It 's the best.

Continues the traditon of Bentley Publishers. It's the most complete manual available for this vehicle, and is the factory approved service manual. Helps to have a fair level of techinical knowledge, book is intended for mechanics, but the procedures are thourogh, w/ plenty of pictures, and full information on year to year updates. Well worth premium price, worth far more than other manuals.

For those of you who are just getting into epistemology this book is very excellent for you. Though it maybe hard at first to read the book explains all concepts very well. Although there is one thing that i would recommend, get the hard bound version of this book, the binding on the paperback version is very shoddy and cracks very easily. enjoy!!!!!!!!!

As the title indicates, this book focuses on the history of Audi. And what a history it is. I have read much poorer tries to explain the difficult amalgamation of The Four Rings than this one, actually the authors do a very good job in explaining the complex story. With an elegant twist they have separated the actual progress from the different car-models that have been released over the years, thus making history clearer.

The strongest side of this book is the accurate, detailed information in every chapter, with a lot of nice footage. Especially the post-war story is impressive in every sense.

On the other hand, as this book is written inhouse at Audi AG in Germany, almost every sign of critisism is wiped out of the book, except where it cannot hurt to mention the flaws anymore.

The last star in my rating will be given when Audi adds color-photos to the book! There is also one other point I would like to mention, though it's a bit on the side: In the next issue, please use the German names for the different companies mentioned in the book!

All in all, A History of Progress : Chronicle of the Audi Ag is the best book I have read on the matter. This book is well worth the money for all lovers of Audi, except for those only interested in the last two or three decades.

This is an Audi book written for English consumers--with English address for information and repair, and (I think) models that were popular in England. Not much applies to cars common in the U.S., like Audi 4000's or 5000's (are they the same as the 80's, 90's, A6's (I don't know and the book doesn't say.))

There is some brief history of Audi, a lot of racing history, and lot of turbo information, and not much else. The buying section is poor and mainly for overseas, the repairing section is only a few generic pictures and narratives and nothing usable, and the tuning only applies to turbos and high performance, nothing usable for the normal driver.

There is little about how the AWD works and how to optimally drive it for the normal driver.

A few tidbits of information, but definitly not a reference book.

There is a whole chapter on how to keep your car from being stolen, which I found silly.

Some nice pictures of race cars.

I find this an armchair book and not much else.

As an Ur-Q fan and owner, I had high hopes for this book but was disappointed by several factors: 1) The amount of filler (does a book targeted at such a narrow audience really need a section on how a radiator is rebuilt or a wheel is refinished? I think not); 2) The lack of original insight into the design or production of these cars (frankly, this book could have been written ten years ago) and 3) The total lack of nitty-gritty details about the car that requires years of firsthand experience with them to uncover ... although the author is also an owner, one almost suspects he bought the car simply to establish his bona fides and not due to any longstanding attraction to or fascination with them.

Of course, satisfying a hard-core Ur-Q fan such as myself may be a difficult (if not impossible!) task. For those readers who've only recently come to learn that Audi was making AWD cars as far back as 1980, this book is probably a good introduction to them; for those of us already in-the-know, however, it comes across as yet another opportunity missed.

Excellent chronology of a great marque. Mr. Pollard provides the reader excellent tips for buying, maintaining, tuning, upgrading, a urquattro, including the rarest of rare 20V model.

Helpful photographs show examples of problems, etc. or great pictures of the Audi in its winning posture during the 80's as a Super B rallye winner!

Written in the UK, much information and shops are from the UK, and therefore difficult to contact from the US since internet addresses are not given.

Like many of the Haynes manuals I have read or used lately, too many different car models are included in the book. For problems that are truly hard to solve, the book is almost useless. The statements that "this work is beyond the ability of most home mechanics and should be referred to the dealer" often refers to just the thing that you need to know but are not told. It is a crude guide for working on your car.

It's OK for small problems and is very detailed, but for bigger problems I'd suggest takng your car to a certified repair shop!

The book is ok as a rough guide/what to look out
but for something simple e.g. instructions for simple
change of a front headlamp the book indicated total removal
of the headlamp unit on my '98 A4. Fortunately I
remembered to the dealership service advice that
I simply had to pop off a plastic cap behind the
headlamp, undo a clip, unplug the old bulb and replace
it - took less than 5 minutes - good thing I did not
follow the book!
Overpriced too.

The book explains pretty simple car repair jobs and includes some indepth types of repair. It has some pictures, but they might use one picture for 4 different types of repair. If you are just wondering how to preform basic car maintenance this book is for you.

I bought this book knowing full well what year it was for, unlike another reviewer that appears to not know anything about cars. It's a good book for minor to somewhat complex repairs for the Passat and A4. It's not like a Bentley manual, but it's better than nothing, and I really don't want to pay this much for a repair book. I highly recommend this manual for the owners of these cars.