performance goodies for the '09 A3?

[Hayes Myers]

Wild. I drove one of those GTI's (ugly farenheit edition) with DSG and found
it to be a blast... auto blipping downshifts etc.  Why the interest in A3
over A4?  In the US both are dirt cheap.  (I know having bought new in
Canada and US... the price diff is stupid..i can't believe how cheap an A4
is in the US).  All this aside, I've put enough profits into VAG with new
vehicles...i'm gong to stick with used ones.  Sooooo many people afraid of
Audi's outside warranty which is a good thing for those who wrench (or
aspire to wrench like me).

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Dikeman [mailto:brett.dikeman at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:41 PM
To: Bares, Vittorio
Cc: Hayes Myers; quattro; DynoDoc
Subject: Re: performance goodies for the '09 A3?

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Bares, Vittorio
<Vittorio.Bares at nuance.com> wrote:
> An '83 4k? So must have been FWD (and thereby pretty light to boot). 10hp
per 100lbs, not to
> mention higher cornering speed with a lighter car too and an experienced
driver - pretty tough
> combination to beat ;)

Definitely a quattro.  I might not have the model year correct, but I
do recall hearing that it was one of the very first 4000 quattros
imported or somesuch.  There was something unusual about its
circumstances.

I finally found a dealer willing to take me out for an extended test
drive.  I've picked up some sense of the car from a few short test
drives, most of which were back when the A3 first came out, but not
much.  I did get the sense that the DSG is improved- when I test drove
an A3 3.2 DSG a few years ago, "awkward" was the best way to describe
stop-and-go driving.

Brett