[s-cars] General Audi Musings

[Bill Noland]

Seem to receive a number of driving event invites from various manufacturers throughout the year and take advantage, whenever I can. Latest was from that All-American institution, General Motors. Wife and I took part for a chance to flog a C6 'Vette around an autocross course. Getting to the Audi content -- the "luxury" car drive included various Cadillacs and Saabs, alog with the Competition. Competition included BMW, Mercedes, Acura, whatever and an Audi A4 3.2l. 

General instructions were to drive the course, take it easy and no tire squealing -- yeah, right. Funny thing was, the one car that seemed to get the most tire squealing going on, drew the most attention from the staff (pulling drivers over and telling them to "SLOW DOWN") and seemed to have the longest wait time to drive was the A4.

Not sure why this was, but did note that the A4 SOUNDED better than anything out there. Maybe that was enough to get the large assortment of drivers to push it that much harder. The wife and I waited for quite a while for a chance to drive the A4, but finally got tired of waiting in line and not flogging cars around the cones (with a minimum of tire squeal, of course). Makes you wonder, if the A4 might mysteriously disappear from the competition lineup in the next city on the tour.

We now return to normal S-Car programming.

Bill Noland