Why I drive an Audi

[Andrew Mabe]

When I was 15 in high school, I saw juniors and seniors driving around with 
hot cars.  All I knew was that I wanted a loud stereo, chrome rims and 
window tint on what ever car I got.  At 16 when I got my licence I got my 
Moms accord handed down to me. This was just as the rice scene was starting 
to heat up.  I looked around on the web and saw other Honda boys and decided 
I was gonna build a awsome car out of this sohc auto accord.  I came to my 
sences and firgured out it wasn't going anywhere fast.  So I set out to find 
a GSR. I was looking at one at a VW dealer and it was next to a GTI VR6.  I 
had never realy cared to know about a GTI before.  A guy about 25 was 
looking at the GTI and the salesman fired it up.  Gurbbel burrble burrble.  
Ooo whats going on with that car.  He pops the hood and all i see is engine. 
  Sweet. 3 days later I drove the VR6 home.  I learned all about the VW 
scene through the GTI VR6 list, and got the Honda flamed out of me.  About a 
year and a half later I slid into a telephone pole in a snow storm and 
rolled over :(  I found a realy nice Corrado VR6 with 35k miles on it for 
$11k. Drove that for 8 months then my insurance spiked at $5k a year (!!!).  
Sold the corrado for a profit and bought a 91 GTI 16v.  Started with ~138hp 
and now its got 172 and will outrun ITRs, VR6s, and pulled a 14.8 at 92.3mph. I 
still got the 16v but its close to sale.  But I was lookingh for a nice VW 
or maybe a 328 or something along those lines to be fun to drive, as 
reliable as a German car can be and cheep on insurance.  I was flipping 
through the local Auto Guide and saw a 95 90 Quattro for $11.5k with 75k 
miles. Drove it, knew it was what I was looking for and bought it.  Now 
after about a month its going to be very hard for me to own another fwd car 
:)

Mabe


>From: Fringe Ryder <fringe at fringeweb.com>
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Why I drive an Audi
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:42:04 -0700
>
>There have been three cars I've lusted after in my life.  Oh, there have
>been others I thought were nicely designed, such as the BMW 3.0CSi and that
>sleek little Volvo coupe from around 1973 or so and a few others, but only
>three I've lusted after, and all came out before I could drive:
>    Porsche 944
>    Audi Quattro (now we call it the UrQ)
>    Lotus Turbo Espirit
>
>I special-ordered my first Audi, a '97 A4Q 2.8 stick, sight unseen.  I
>never even had a chance to drive an Audi quattro OR stick before buying it;
>just an A4 2.8 automatic FWD.  Two months later my dream car showed up,
>with much of the interior styling of the 944 I loved, the Quattro of the
>UrQ, decent performance, and a respectable business-like look that fits
>into my life.  Reliability was dreadful, but probably better than the
>lust-cars on my list.
>
>I now drive a 2000 S4.  Reliability is still not very good, but I am
>addicted to Audis.  Best engineered driving around, pity they seem to be
>assembled by drunken frenchmen.
>


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