[s-cars] Audi "Streets of Tomorrow Ride and Drive", or...

[DGraber460 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/1/2006 10:01:20 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
stadmef at ntplx.net writes:

At the  present time, the A3 2.0T is not available with quattro in the  
US  due to the quattro gas tank being unsatisfactory for crash- 
worthiness.  The Audi folks I spoke to said they were working on  
fixing  that.


Frank



On May 1, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Steve  Marinello wrote:

> Acutally, Dennis, I drove the 2.0T A3's to  compare to the FWD  
> GTI's.  I did not like the DSG in the  A3 at all. Drive it back-to- 
> back with a GTI and maybe you'll see  what I mean, or maybe not.
>
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>> In  a message dated 5/1/2006 3:45:43 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
>>  stadmef at ntplx.net writes:
>>
>> Yep, the A3 was as  disappointing as the RS4 was fun!  My regular  car
>> for  those of you not keeping up is an R32, so I was antsy to   drive
>> the A3 3.2 as well as try out DSG.  The added  incentive  was that  
>> my R
>> has been in the  shop for a week to fix up some minor  bodywork and  
>>  the
>> dealer gave me a 2006 Passat 2.0T with  Tiptronic.   I hated the
>> Tiptronic so I was really hoping the  DSG would  be  fun.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Too bad all of you drove the 3.2 A3. The 2.0 DSG car is far more    
>> fun. When
>> pushed to the limit that might change due  to front drive,  but the  
>> lighter
>> front  weight and extremely quick DSG make it really  fun to toss   
>> around.
>> I thought the DSG TT was disappointing by  comparison. Not sure why  
>> the DSG
>> mating to 3.2  doesn't behave the same as the 2.0 but that  
>> combination  just
>> doesn't work as well. The computer programing for the 2.0T  shifts  
>> is spot on.
>>


I know the 2.0 is not available, and that was a point of contention for a  
lot of potential buyers. We had gotten the first 2.0's about a year ago, and had 
 to wait for the Quattro's till last fall. The extra power and weight just 
didn't  provide what was anticipated.
Once again I was only talking about "tossing them around" and the  
conversation here has been about "flogging", so I probably shouldn't have chimed  in but 
I didn't see any reference to the 2.0, so I thought I might at  least see if 
there had been some experience with it as well.
Glad I'm not fighting the car sales battle anymore.
I do agree that the RS4 should be the S4.  

 
Dennis  Graber
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