AWD dont do well at the dragstrip ??????????????

[Steve Marinello]

THIS IS WAY PAST BORING!!!

Will you guys admit the other camp is partially right?

When the first urq hit the streets it was quicker than a 944 to 62 mph.
Why??? Because the quattro hookup allowed better initial acceleration.
PERIOD!!  Tested, compared, reported ad nauseum.   AWD does IN CERTAIN
COMPARISON SITUATIONS have an off the line advantage.  Preceeding message
about a 7 car length lead should off the start should make some impression.

That being said, I am NOT into dragging.  Hate the strip.  See it as a
consumate waste of time; too noisy; full of perpetually adolescent raging
hormone cases...and their little girlies (sorry!).

I am down to one urq and an S6 avant.  I enjoy them both because of their
ability to handle and to handle situations better than any other cars I have
owned...and there have been a few.  They are not the quickest; SO WHAT?!
(I will continue, btw, to dispute those who malign the early and present
versions of the 2.8 V6; you just don't know how to drive it.)

They do NOT handle as well, or at least feel as nice, as a set up BMW on a
dry road.  SO WHAT?!

If you can't get past those things, sorry, you're a poseur to those of us
who have been on this list for nearly ten years (how long has it been,
Dan?).

That being said, I love my quattros because they are relatively quick off
the line in the dry and quicker in the wet than almost anyone.  They ahndle
quite well, once you've got them set up.  They offer a margin of safety and
comfort not found elsewhere.  They have soul, at least the older ones, that
some of these cars just don't...but that may be because so many of their
owners appear soul-less.

Last comment.  Wife with three-year old in the a car seat in my '83 urq with
about 200 hp.  A couple of years ago, guy in a bright red nearly new Z28
pulls alongside at a stoplight where you have 300-400 yards before it's down
to one lane.  Keeps looking over and revving his engine.  (Who knows why???
My wife's a redhead?)  She's getting pi**ed.  Puts it in gear and gets
ready.  Light changes, guy stomps on it, chirps tires, but she's gone and
watches him in the rear view mirror  with, as she put, a look of utter
disbelief.  AWD does have an advantage.  But it's in the technique.

Off the soapbox.

Steve

> From: Huw Powell <audi at mediaone.net>
> Organization: HUMAN Speakers
> Reply-To: one at humanspeakers.com
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:52:00 -0400
> To: Identiles at aol.com
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: AWD dont do well at the dragstrip ??????????????
> 
> 
>> THIS ONE I LOVE - (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?? )
>> 
>> You want to know what those Honda's were running - 15s, 16s, and 17s. Those
>> Audis are 40 thousand dollar cars they should be kicking ass.
> 
> [major meaningless snipped]
> 
> my, this *is* getting boring.  You want a drag racer, get some big old
> RWD iron with a 426 hemi V8 and have some fun.  And not on the street,
> either...
> 
> Audi strengths, and probably why most of us own them, are not simply
> getting 1320 feet behind you as fast as possible from a standing start.
> They are a balance of sure, steady power, nimble grace, effortlessly
> informative handling.  Remember the Coupe GT with the incredible skid
> pad numbers?  Not much that would show up in a "rev it, dump it, end it"
> race.  But you know, around here where I live, some of the roads have
> corners...
> 
> A drag race is one of the least meaningful exercises in streetable car
> competition, unless, I suppose, you live in a town that has only one
> road, right down the middle, with all the girls and women lined up to
> watch the lights change and the boys peel out...
> 
> -- 
> Huw Powell
> 
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/
> 
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>