[s-cars] AUDI S8 QUATTRO FS- Maine

Taka Mizutani t44tqtro at gmail.com
Tue Sep 12 16:37:39 EDT 2006


Paul-
I'd like to hear your impressions of the RS6- I was not impressed at all,
especially
taking into consideration the $50k+ asking price of most of them.

The S8 is definitely a neat car, although the lack of a manual transmission
really hurts.
Regardless of what some listers have said about the cars, IMO the S8 and the
RS6
really need the manual transmission- automatics don't shift fast enough,
don't have the
right gearing and generally aren't responsive enough for fast driving. They
also freewheel
and lack engine braking- that's my biggest sticking point with automatics.
Manually
shifted even with steering wheel paddle shifters, they're still not very
responsive.

BTW, don't drive a D3 S8 if you get a D2- the D3 chassis is so much better-
the "regular"
A8 only lacks power to take advantage of the chassis, which the V10 would
fix handily.

Taka


On 9/12/06, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sure is a LOT of car for the $$$ tho.  And even the pundits are being
> swayed - my buddy Brian was driving one yesterday and called me
> exclamating "I take back *all* I previously said about these not being
> worth the premium over an A8...   short of the RS6 THIS is THE best Audi
> I've ever driven - all my preconceptions are OUT the window - this is an
> amazing machine and the tranny rocks - car out handles and outperforms
> my UrS all day".
>
> Coming from the man who pilots a tuned GT2, etc., that's pretty good
> feedback.  So much so he's likely making new effort to move his '95.5
> RS2'd UrS6 to make way for one, I know of one lister looking at his
> likely soon (MUwhahahaa to him).  Bruce and Edweirdo here are two that
> have made the jump thus far.  Wunder who's next 8-).
>
> On the C5 //S6 Avant front, they appear to be holding ground a bit
> better.  Tho the one Dave notes above seems to be a heck of a deal.
> But, Avant aside, I still think the //S8 is entirely more car, and
> cooler, IMO of course.
>
> -Paul things in motion in CT K.
>


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