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

[crankshaft at adelphia.net]

Hello,

I think they should have drag racing in the winter. I actually had a
Honda boy pull up 
next to me during a snowstorm. He was looking at me and revving his
hamster cage.......
I guess he didnt know what quattro meant. Well long story short the old
trusty 4000Q
with my wife and alot of snowboard gear left him in a cloud of snow. Way
to much fun!

Regards,
crankshaft

Steve Marinello wrote:
> 
> 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/
> >