The S4 twin turbo is Slow

[JShadzi at aol.com]

This is new to me, since when did no wheel spin equate to easy launches???  

Listen, there may be a horsepower war out there, but Audi's last priority should be trying to show up Hondas at a local drag strip, should it??  

There is a war out there all right, its called the high end sport sedan market, and it has to do with people flying around on the local freeways in comfort and speed, a WRX is no match for an S4tt on the freeway, there are very few cars that are, even with "only" 250hp.  I would love to see the RS4 over here just as much as anyone, not to kick butt at the drag strip, but the show up the new $55k M3.

Lets just say you won't be doing any marketing strategy for Audi any time soon  =)

Javad

In a message dated Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:25:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Identiles writes:

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> all wheel drive cars are hard to launch???? WHAT. The whole point of quattro is no wheel spin????? That is the big advantage. It is like a cheat.  I am a Audi person to the fullest, but I was very dissapointed last night.  I have never had a problem launching my quattro.  I would take everyone out in the rain so your making excuses for quattro on dry pavement ?    My friend has a WRX and he would have destroyed anyone of those S4s for half the price.  All I know is they make a million "S" cars now and they are not representing in my opinion. I only respect the real "S" cars you know the ones that only came in stick and were actually rare and limited cars. Audi is sold out on the the "S" cars. DId you notice that they made the badges different for 2001. They are bigger now so that people can read them. The original badges were small and unable to be read unless you were right on them. That was for the sleeper factor.    You can disagree all you want but come on there is a Spe!
ed and Horsepower war out there.
 Audi better bring some RS cars over here to kick ass. Cause the 250 HP is not cutting it. Toyota camarys and Honda accords have 200 HP now.