[s-cars] Quattro Qwisis Line

[Taka Mizutani]

Let me revise my post- the STi does not handle as well as an E46 in
the dry, but it still is awfully fun to drive. Autox'ed the car for
the first time today and found that understeer was the predominant
handling characteristic when you pushed the car hard. However, on the
street, it is LOTS of fun to drive, just not that great at autox.

The Evo smokes the STi in handling- I drove both of them before buying
the STi and found that I couldn't live with the very harsh ride and
too-short gearing of the Evo (the STi's gearing is still pretty short,
but not as bad as the Evo for a daily drive).

Had I an unlimited budget, I would pick the Evo as the track car and
get a S4 V8 for a daily driver- actually, I'd get a Z06 for a track
car and the S4 V8.

Taka


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:10:47 EDT, fvami at aol.com <fvami at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 10/7/04 9:44:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> t44tqtro at gmail.com writes: 
> 
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> With the STi, I get power and handling on par with the E46 M3, just 
> need some extra sound insulation to get some refinement into the 
> machine. I actually ran a E46 M3 and a hopped-up (to what degree, I 
> don't know) SRT-4 last night, acquitted myself nicely. 
> 
> 
> I drove the STi - it rips -- constant torque at 3000 rpms ... I want to
> drive the EVO as well - I think the STi has an active valve system with a
> 2.5 liter -- virtually no lag at all and ripped through the gears in no time
> - although the shifter was short - it did not have that precision feel to it
> ... it has other minor issues as well ... but It sure was fun. 
> 
> Best regards, 
> Feico van der Laan 
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