Re: Department of Smug and Invulnerable

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Shaun Mullen wrote:
> 
> With stories popping up on the list of quattro-esque deeds from
> Stateside folks that already have had serious snow, I thought I'd add my
> own experience off of our first serious snow here in the Middle
> Atlantic: I left Center City Philadelphia in heavy snow in my 100CSQW
> feeling smug and invulnerable, my fifth winter in a quattro, and all was...

Yesterday in Philly was pretty nasty. Not as much snow, but a thick
shield of ice that covered everything, including roads. Cars stood like
someone poured liquid glass over them. We have this crap quite often, in
our damp climate, when temperature quickly drops below the dew point.
All that atmospheric moisture condenses and turnes into a transparent
ice schield. Grass and plants look like they are from a fairy tale,
beautifull!
But... you better own a Quattro!

Yesterday I was driving in a normal Quattro manner, i.e. passing left
and right all those sloooooly and carefully crawling Ultimate Bragging
Machines. That seemed to piss them off so much, that a lot of Bummers 
were blinking their high beams at my tail. As if they were saying: slow
down, you psycho! Don't you see it is slippery?! (Only WMBs did it,
though. Speaking of one's complex of inferiority...:)

I won't be surprised if they don't even know what "Quattro" stands for!
Any WMB owner knows that Audi is "another" german car, only a bad one.
And if he can't control the "Ultimate" one above 20mph, that dude in a
red sedan must be a total psycho or a moron or both. Maybe even second
day behind the wheel.

I had so much fun yesterday. Long live Quattro with 4 Nokias!
Today it is melting. Bummer.

Igor Kessel
'89 200TQ