items wanted

[Steve Marinello]

I recently succumbed, for some reason, to letting the S6 sedan go in trade
for a '07 GTI...for way too little trade-in, but that's another story.  A
young VW, formerly Audi tech is buying it.  There are five things to comment
on having driven it in dry and wet weather since Christmas.

1. It's not quattro,
2. I miss quattro,
3. I need quattro,
4. The 2.0t has lots of power!
5. The new for '07 European sport suspension (as opposed to the '06 American
sport suspension) is pretty darn good on asphalt and SUCKS BIG TIME on
Houston rippled concrete highways.  

With 45 miles each way to work some days, I may end up turning in this lease
and doing something else just because of the change in suspension.  I had
driven the '06 all over on different surfaces and it was fine, but this is a
bit too much.  It is nice, though, and it is SO much better than the Mazda3,
Mazdaspeed 3 and even the Civic Si.  The close ratio six is fun, but I think
a tall sixth would be nice.  That's the way it was in '06 on the GLI's.
Also, should have gotten a four door, or the GLI.  Even though I intended it
for just me commuting, the family likes jumping in for just about anything.
Far more rear leg room than an A4 and my daughter just can't believe how
little it is on the outside and how big on the inside.

Still waiting for the guitar...

Of course, it will give me time to work on the RS2 S6 avant...finally.  Get
the 2B camber plates and HRSB mounted up sometime...maybe by spring.  And
after that, the urq gets some TLC.

One especially impressive car is the Passat with the six speed stick and
sport suspension.  If only they offered 4Motion on the 2.0t stick, but no
way.  The legroom in the Passat is so much more than the A4...

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Jason Kohls
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 9:30 AM
To: Kurt Nolte
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: items wanted

I second that.  I took out a Mazdaspeed3 on the weekend for a "spin"
-- I was churping tires , nose-diving and torque-steering my way back
to the dealer lot when I realised that I *need* AWD and FWD + loads of
grunt = me in the hospital.

On 1/8/07, Kurt Nolte <syncronized_turbo at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Why was AWD important? Speaking from personal experience, AWD's grippy
> nature has made me a more aggressive, inattentive driver...
>
> -Kurt
>
>
> Lee Levitt wrote:
> > Taka,
> >
> > I'm generally in agreement with you regarding the manual
> > transmission. If he was interested in sedans, we would have gone
> > that route. However, he really wanted a wagon, both for the
> > utility and the slightly better rearward visibility.
> >
> > And I wanted a slow, safe, relatively large car for him. I don't
> > have much fact behind this, but my gut tells me that the C4 A6 may
> > handle accidents better than later model VWs...
> >
> > He's a teenager and he has ADD. The latter drives his likelihood
> > of accidents up by a factor of 200-300%, and a sporty car with a
> > manual would only accentuate this...
> >
> > If a Volvo 240 were available with AWD... :)
> >
> > Lee
> >
> > On Mon Jan 08 06:36:34 PST 2007, Taka Mizutani
> > <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I'm a little disappointed- I would have hoped that you would
> >> teach your
> >> son to drive manual transmission and have him get a manual
> >> transmission
> >> car!
> >>
> >> I feel that this is a useful skill that a lot of people are
> >> lacking these
> >> days.
> >>
> >> I would have gotten an A4 chassis Golf/Jetta 2.slow if you're
> >> sticking w/
> >> VAG- safe car, relatively easy to work on and fairly simple,
> >> compatible with
> >> VAG-COM that I'm sure you already have and also relatively new.
> >> With a
> >> manual
> >> transmission, they're not totally bad, they have great brakes and
> >> available
> >> ESP on the later cars. Not reliable but a lot simpler than an
> >> S-car. :-)
> >>
> >> Taka
> >>
> >>
> >>
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