Re: A8 Test drive

[vicarage@ix.netcom.com (Anthony Parkinson )]

You wrote: 
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>Rear suspension too if I remember correctly.

May have been ..I did not check that carefully...
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>I got to drive it alone.   (heh heh)

Well done!! I had to steal this one from Service side of the shop and 
luckily the folks there are good friens so the service teck went out in 
the car with me nd those insidious water filled dummies
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>It's licensed from Porsche (Tiptronic) and I thought it worked quite 
>well. 
I agree... it was just a bit novel to me ( a non porsche interested 
party!)

 I also thought that the full auto mode worked pretty well,

Yep .. first class and smooth

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>I only drove the regular XJ6,

Well the XJR is a very good machine but the confidence that this car 
offers is head and shoulders over it... XJR is also a leap over the XJ6

 
>The A8 I was in was all in German.  Did you get English? 

Yes this one was in English although the mileage was calibrated in 
liters as I recall ...

I am told the retail on the 4.2 quattro ( as opposed to the 2.8 
standard version ) will be around the $70k mark ... a little steep for 
an audi ( dealer cost in the $55k range...)

Supposedly coming in this Sept/oct???
kind regards
tony
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