Forgotten cars that shouldn't be... not for me!

[Cody Forbes]

Brady Moffatt wrote:
> No, the part "that wasn't supposed to get out to the list" was about
> my lusting after a Lancia Delta HF Integrale 8V/16V/Evo1/Evo2.
>

I'm going to say I'd say a Sport Quattro over an HF Integrale, the HF over 
the R5-T2 (oh my god, a car named after a blue and white trash can that 
beeps....), and the R5-T2 over the ur-Q.

Really the R5 Turbo2 that I've been driving arround ALOT now (home from work 
yesterday, yay!) will hands down rock an urQ and laugh at it all the way 
arround any race track in the world. Sorry, but it's the truth. This R5 is 
the closest car I've come across to the handling of our 914-6 race cars, and 
it's on street tires. I decided to skid pad the R5, and at close to full 
steering lock and 35mph I could BARELY hold my head up straight anymore with 
still no sign of tire slippage. With sticky tires, like Hosiers, I think I 
would need a 5 point harness and a neck brace to drive the thing and stay in 
the seat. Even on pure acceloration it's a no brainer, close to 200hp and 
well under 2300lbs beats the urQ's what 160hp and maybe 2900lbs.

BUT we are not comparing apples to apples. The R5 Turbo is Renault's Group B 
homologation car, and the urQ is not Audi's homologation car, the Sport 
Quattro is (unless I'm mistaken, which is highly possible). Of course if we 
are talking in terms of money the Sport Quattro is worth ALOT more then an 
R5, which is in the $20,000 range, and an UrQ is half that.

Final answer:
 If I had $10k to spend on a car I would paint my black TQ and buy something 
like a urA6. If I had $20k I would buy an R5 just like the one at my shop. 
If I was Jay Leno I'd buy a Sport Quattro, an urQ, an R5, an RS6, and an S8 
for good measure with an R8 being my autocross toy.

-Cody Forbes
http://www.5000tq.com
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