[s-cars] [Fwd: The Latest Scoop from Le Mans... RS6, etc.]

[Darin Nederhoff]

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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 09:45:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Frank Amoroso <fjamoroso at yahoo.com>
Subject: The Latest Scoop from Le Mans... RS6, etc.
To: editor at s-cars.org
Cc: adam at centennial.com, stevek at verinet.com

Greetings gents! A hearty hello from the ground level of the Audi Hospitality Zentrum
trackside at Le Mans.

Well, well, where shall I start? First off, would you guys forward this to the S list
(Darin) and the local RS6 discussion distribution list (Adam)?

In short (and I will provide more detail later on)...

Monday had us at the Audi Zentrum in / near the Munich airport where we were able to
check out a few cool things to kick off our tour. Lamborghini Murcielago, 1998 Audi R8,
A8L W12, etc.. We went on to the BMW Factory tour in Munich as well as the BMW Museum. We
spent that night in Munich.

Tuesday morning we were up early and off to Audi in Ingolstadt. Very cool setup there.
The factory was super clean and very modern. We had lunch at the Avus restaurant, and
then visited the museum. Next, we were on to MTM, where we saw a buttload of stuff. Sport
Q street car, Sport Q rally car with 650 bhp, RS2, RS4s, S3s, etc., etc.. That evening we
went on to Stuttgart for dinner at Amici, the Porsche / Mercedes restaurant.

The next morning we visitied the Porsche Museum which had a bunch of totally cool stuff!
Factory tour and lunch at the Porsche visitor center. Saw sooo much cool stuff that I
can't even list them here (pics to come, I've taken approx. 400, or so, so far). Let's
just say that Porsche Exklusive and Werk 1 have been busy, busy boys!!! About 6 959s in
the front lot alone (not to mention the two in the shop, including the original Rothmans
rally car!).

We also visited Sportec in Zurich (more GT2s, Sport Qs, RS4s, S3s, etc.., yawn) and I
came away so totally and completely impressed that I am ready to find a RS4, have them
slap their 420 bhp kit, ship the sumbitch over and call it a day.

Also, for those of you that don't know, the S3 is TOTALLY COOL!!!

Putzed around Le Mans a bit the past 36 hours, taking in the sites (internal monologue:
Memo to self, the Audi girls are stunning and the MG girls SONT INCROYABLE!!!!, the
Hawaiian Tropic girls are unreal).

Audi Hospitality Zentrum is monstrous (2X+ last year's, and an extended height viewing
platform, replete with bar, to boot.), I'll leave the gory details out, but there are
plenty A8, S8, A8L W12 (most all with 20 inch RS4 wheels!),  S6, RS4, and RS6 shuttle
cars running around. As a result, a 17 inch Avus looks sad and wimpy in this company.

Speaking of, we had an RS6 to call our very own for about an hour this morning. I can
only say one thing, this vehicle is completely, absolutely, and in every other way the
shit. It is all that. The bees knees. The state of the art. Solid. Sell your soul.

Five guys in the car, full fuel load, and the freakin' thing put my head back into the
seat. And the handling, oh the handling! Sweet mother of god, this thing is tossable. We
drove it HARD and I would have been totally dumbfounded if I weren't laughing with sheer
incredulty. Ours was a Daytona grau Avant, mit silver interior (killer Recaros), 19 inch
wheels, and sport rotors. The Call is most certainly a Daytona Grey avant with Ebony
interior (with the piping). For us poor schmucks in the states, the Mugello Blue Sedan
with Ebony (piping again) would be the call (perhaps black exterior would do too, just
like the one parked right in front of me, next to a #1 R8). The gearbox is trick. No need
to F around with the paddles, just stick it in Sport and away you go. The unit holds
gears (no shifting) in the twisties. The thing does 125 mph at will , and we did an
extended stint at 175 mph smoothly and easily. We did use 3/4 tank of gas in about one
hour, but you know what they say. When in Le Mans! This thing is Rico Suave!! Sell your
soul, it is worth it. I can't even begin to imagine what this thing would do with four
less guys in the car. It will massacre the M5. I say again, it will massacre the M5.
Soooo much power, and soooo much torque. My only suggestion is that the verhicle be
ordered with alcantara seating surfaces, and that you have a pair of alcantara pants (or
a suit) tailored up. Otherwise you will slide around in the seat, and the rear seat
pasangers will not stand a chance.

That's it for now. More to come. Email me at fjamoroso at yahoo.com if you like.

BTW,
Audi is currently running 1,2,3 and all of the cars are just screamin' by behind me right
now.

Don't hate me...
Frank

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