Audi Ownership Generations

[Larry C Leung]

115 BHP, 127 lb-ft AIR

By the numbers, bone stock, good (okay, the professionals at auto-mags,
or a good amateur racer (road, autocross, drag, typically affiliated such
as SCCA, VSCCA, etc) driver, a recent Civic 5 sp would zap nearly all
aspro I-5 Audis and give some of the 10V turbo I-5s a good run for the
money FROM REST. The rest of a straight line run would vary. On a tight
course, they really do have excellent handling, the only (comparably)
weak point is their brakes. If I didn't have an interest in the overall
feel and balance of either of my VAG products, and was only interested in
SCCA racing, I'd probably have an E-Stock Honda, and if ALL I cared about
was winning in those types of classes (i.e. cheap) I'd even consider
(gasp!) a Neon (old Miata's are fun, but the cheaper ones can't compete
with the new ones, and for some reason they are placed in the same class)
! BUT, that's not what Audi's are all about, there is a definite balance,
level of quality and feel, history and albit of uniqueness that Audi's
have and Honda's, Neons, etc don't have. To each his own. Generally
speaking, in terms of raw performance, newer cars of virtually any ilk
will consitently outperform older ones (is that mechanical evolution?).
Heck a Ford Focus ZTS should give a stock Audi I-5 a drubbing. (haven't
driven one of those yet, they don't have driving schools at the local
Auto-X club here). Of course, not one, ANY of those cars could hold a
candle to any Quattro when the going gets rough (though obviously a Sube
Impreza 2.5 RS or WRX would be QUITE competitive, when comparing aspro to
aspro or turbo to turbo. Just find them too tinny to like their feel.
They are good, if cheap feeling cars.)

That said, I did suck the headlights out of a later 5 series (had angel
eyes) that tried to harass me up an entrance ramp last night. Was kinda
fun.

LL - NY

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:37:51 -0500 "Rave Racer" <Ravewar at home.com>
writes:
>little mechanical upgrade to my OLD (1987) 4000Q (122HP I think).  I
>see