[s-cars] Re:Newly adopted A8

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, Bill Mahoney wrote:
>
> BTW FWIW I believe starting with year 2000, the interior and exterior
> was updated somewhat and a bit more power added.
>
> There's a good a8 buyers checklist at audipages.com.
> Rod's friends car was prolly green with yellow leather and really who
> knows what else they do to cars down there. he he
> Cheers'
> Bill M
> ps
> IMHO though this car (non L) appears large, I thought it felt and
> handled very very well for a cruiser:)

I had a '93 V8 Quattro before the UrS6.  Other than it needed the
Bilstein and Eibach treatment since applied to the UrS6, it was a very
nice car.  Even that early 4.2L V8 had lots of power and torque and
the 4 speed auto-quattro wasn't that bad either.

I'll bet a bit of suspension tweaking on a later A8 would produce
a very nice car.

    - Charlie


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