[s-cars] 1993 Audi S4 for sale

[Lee Levitt]

Or perhaps idiotic. :)

I should have said RWD IRS, which I believe both the MB and BMW 
are.

And I said that the RR was pitiful in comparison to the Audi. 
Otherwise it was pretty darn good, far better than anything else I 
had driven in the snow, except perhaps my '88 740 turbo with 
chains on all four wheels. The Rover had great straight line 
traction but wouldn't go around a corner in 6" of powder like the 
Audi does.

Lee


On Fri Aug 31 16:19:01 PDT 2007, Taka Mizutani 
<t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to nitpick, Lee, but your statement is pretty ironic, 
> considering the
> following:
> 
> 1. Your A6s have IRS, obviously don't suck in the snow.
> 2. Your Range Rover had solid axles and you said it sucked in the 
> snow.
> 
> So which is it? :-)
> 
> Taka
> 
> 
> On 8/31/07, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, cars with IRS SUCK in the snow. I learned to drive in RWD
>> Volvos in upstate NY, where a nightly 6" of snow wouldn't even be
>> mentioned by the local weathergirl. She'd have to see 8" or more
>> before she even peeped, but that's another story.
>> 
>> Anyway, I love driving RWD cars in the snow. I also love driving
>> FWD cars in the snow...my second car was a VW Rabbit and the
>> handbrake, working on the rear wheels, did more steering in snow
>> than the steering wheel. :)
>> 
>> But if I have to get someplace, give me quattro.
>> 
>> Oh, and by the way, the snow performance of my wife's '96 A6 got
>> me out of a '99 Range Rover, which was pitiful in
>> comparison....and into my first Audi, an S6 avant.
>> 
>> Lee
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri Aug 31 09:49:58 PDT 2007, Taka Mizutani
>> <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > You guys crack me up- here I am driving a freaking Miata in the
>> > snow, with
>> > all of 4" of ground clearance, short wheelbase, RWD, 
>> lightweight-
>> > everything
>> > bad for driving in snow, and I don't have issues driving in 
>> snow.
>> > The only
>> > time I got sideways was while turning and a little too
>> > enthusiastic of a
>> > throttle application.
>> >
>> > You're spoiled driving a quattro- you can't be hamfisted 
>> driving
>> > a RWD car
>> > in low traction conditions. If you're smooth with steering and
>> > throttle and
>> > brake inputs, it's not that much of a big deal.
>> >
>> > Spinning in the rain while going straight, Dave? WTF? :-)
>> >
>> > Not for nothing, you guys would probably spin my STi in the 
>> snow.
>> > At least
>> > Paul would claim he did it on purpose. :-P
>> >
>> > Taka
>> >
>> 
>