The S4 twin turbo is Slow

[james accordino]

--- Kwattro at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01-07-19 12:52:53 EDT, you write:
> 
> << but I've seen very few cars that can keep with
> even
>  my venerable '91 200Q on the freeway, let alone the
> S4.
>  
>  To me, what's most telling is that you can
> reasonably drive the S4
>  around town at 25 mph in *sixth*!
>   >>
> 
> 
> I can think of at least 15 cars off the top of my
> head (in the same price 
> range) that without much of a problem, could keep up
> with an S4.  Two of them 
> are in my dad's garage.  Both, bought together, were
> less than half the 
> price.  Wouldn't drive either in the snow, though...
> The S4 does a great job of keeping up with the e36
> M3.  Note no tests yet 
> against the E46....
> Later!

I think some of us are speaking a different language. 
When you say "keep up" are you talking about from
daycare to the fast food joint down the street?  You
NEED a V10 Wrexcursion!  Audi comes from Germany last
time I checked and almost no one over 18 is interested
in rocketing from 1 traffic light to the next at full
throttle.  What 15 cars can keep up on the autobahn? 
Or I-380 for that matter.  I commute 84 miles one way
every day.  I don't want some 400 hp rattle trap that
does 10 sec. 1/4 mile times.  In Feb. I drove a 2001
Merc. C200 w/ 6 speed.  A thousand miles mostly at
135-150 mph.  No drama, no noise.  Very smooth and
competent.  I imagine the S4 is aimed at this market,
not teens in baggy clothes racing in town.  Honda and
Chevy's Cavalier already saturated that market.  By
the way, where are all these "image racers" on the
real roads?  I've not yet seen one of these pathetic
wastes ever doing more than 75 mph on the highway. 
Too much plastic wind resistance?  Body kits fly off? 
If I wanted to drive like that I would have kept my 66
Chevelle SS.  I think somebody got on the wrong list
by mistake.

Jim Accordino