quattro Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4: new recall

[Larry C. Leung]

Wow! Never thought that European traffic was getting that heavy  (duh!). 

Mostly 'cuz I don't trust the parking lot at school (ya never know what 
students in gangland will do to a teacher's car) I've been driving the 
Subie beater to work. It's an autobox and it's sluggish at highway speeds
(although for some reason, off the line, it's really not bad), and even 
manually selected gears are slow to change, but I feel that I'm not
loosing
too much in driving the Sube, as, even though it gets the same fuel, eh,
uh,
economy rates as the 200Q (IOW, sucky) it at least runs on 87 octane. 

LL - NY


On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:41:32 +0100 Tom Nas <tnas at euronet.nl> writes:
> "Larry C. Leung" <l.leung at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> >Not to start a thread, but different strokes for different folks, 
> right?
> >(and yes, I still drive a 5sp, and haven't found a slushy I"ve 
> liked
> >yet. But I don't necessarily slam those who prefer them!)
> 
> I drive a manual but would probably prefer an automatic for my daily 
> 
> commute- though the increased fuel consumption would probably be a 
> negative 
> factor. I live in The Netherlands, where due to the incredible 
> traffic 
> density the autobox is gaining in popularity. You probably wouldn't 
> be able 
> to resell an A6 with a manual transmission here, that category of 
> cars 
> (6-cyl and upwards) is an automatic by default.
> 
> An A4 4-cyl on the other hand would be difficult to sell as an 
> automatic, I 
> can pick up automatic Audi 80s ('86-'91) for next to nothing and 
> they're 
> generally in better shape than the manual cars. Those are considered 
> 
> grandad's cars here.
> 
> For an enjoyable drive on quiet country roads I prefer a manual. For 
> the 
> daily traffic light rodeo give me an autobox anytime.
> 
> Tom 
> 
> 
>