keeping your puppy alive - Re: Dead Puppy

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Steve,
Did you go w/ a friend?

I missed my chance to drive the S8- _everyone_ wanted to drive the S8.

I guess I'll have to try and snag a test-drive one of these days.

I can't compare it to the S8 as I have not driven the S8, but if you
drive
the E39 M5, you'll really want one as well. Sure, they're $72-75k, but
at
least at sea level, it's the most impressive stock sports sedan I've
ever
driven. I felt the same way about the E34 when it arrived in '91.

I don't get waves from most Audi drivers, but when I wave first, they
usually
acknowledge me, unless they're yuppie idiots. :-)

Taka

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Steve Sears
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:36 AM
To: macatawa at hotmail.com
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: keeping your puppy alive - Re: Dead Puppy


Scott wrote:
>That's the problem I had recently.  I drove a bunch of newer quattros,
>but they didn't feel as nice as mine at 200k.  They felt ordinary.

Scott,
If you want to stay happy with your ride, then don't _ever_ try an S8 -
yeah, sure, they cost almost as much as a house in the boonies, but with
the "money for almost free" loans these days..........I tried one out at
the Quattro Challenge at Mosport last summer - oooh, baby, was that ever
sweet. I agree with the consensus, however, the Type 44's make an
excellent choice for the mechanically adept, and the turbo 44's can be
inexpensively modified to produce very respectable hp:weight ratios. I
just dread 10 or so years from now shopping amongst the used Audis
though. IMHO, the 60 Minutez show separated the "wheat from the chaff"
so to speak, the true Audi enthusiasts from the "flavour/flavor (hey,
I'm bilingual!) of the month" crowd.  As I've often said, when I got my
first Audi it was easy to get a nod or a wave from a fellow owner, now
it seems that they think I'm planning to carjack them. Cheers! Steve
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