drove an s4 avant

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Samir Shah say:

> Gang, This afternoon, my wife and I test drove a bunch of wagons: BMW 
> 528it, BMW 540it, Audi A6 Avant and S4 Avant, in that order. The short list 
> is the 540it and the S4 Avant. The power of the 540 is awesome, after which 
> the A6 felt terrible. I had flogged a new A6 2.7T @ Texas Motor speedway 
> last December (open session, got 200+ track miles that day) and was very 
> thus familiar with the awesome engine, and the A6, and was expecting the S4 
> to exhibit the same type of understeer and steering numbness. However, I 
> was really surprised with the steering feel and nimblenesss of the S4!

I'm betting that the Servotronic (tm) steering had something to do
with that. Numb barely begins to describe the A6 steering in the US.
Until that relay is pulled ;-)

My bet is that the S cars don't have it, and/or the A/S4's don't.

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