Tales of an S4

["Mike Jundt" <mjundt@visi.com>]

The thing to remember is its not how many horses you have its how much
WEIGHT those horses are lugging around. In your case the 850 Turbo wagon
has 15.3 lbs/hp to pull while your S4 is around 14.98 lbs/hp. You can see
that both cars are evenly matched. Besides, maybe the Volvo driver had a
few mods under the hood.

/From: Nivi@aol.com
/Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 03:27:22 -0500 (EST)
/Subject: Tales of an S4, S6 and a Volvo 850TWagon....

/Hi guys,

/While I was driving across the northern half of NJ trying to locate some
/Mobil 1 5w30, I was tooling (65) up 287, with a car in front of me, when a
/dk. green Volvo850wagon (I'm assuming it's the turbo) came up behind me
after
/the guy in front of me pulled out of the slow lane. I figured he was
trying
/to show off, and as I was in the S4 (in 5th gear, at 65), I floored it,
but
/the guy kept moving up, *and* FAST!! I decided that I didn't need to
/downshift, as I was in the maximum torque range (2900rpm), so I left it
/there...

/I was *pissed*! I then called Paul Miller Porsche Audi in Parsippany (used
/cars), where I bought my coupeQ, and asked them if they had an S6 around.
/They had just got one in, so I went over to take a test drive and compare
it
/to my output...guess what? It was even slower!! (That's probably because
the
/car hasn't been broken in yet, and I *wasn't* "flogging" it) The car is
/heavier, and has a crisp turn-in, with the nice sports steering wheel. It
may
/have been hit on the driver's side door....and it's got 19Kmi. If anyone
/wants one, you can call Jeff at (201)575-7750. The sales manager is
Michael
/Eichvalds. No interest in this one, but just reporting the rare one around
/here....in case anybody wants one. They're asking $ 41,900, but who knows
how
/negotiable they are...

/I'm going to try chipping my S4, and if I still get nailed by a
/Volvo...that's it!! Don't they only have 222 hp vs. the S4's 227?? Even
the
/above mentioned salesman said that they were "fast", and he started
getting
/exited, so something's there....any comments? (Besides on my driving! I
know
/I should have tried to downshift, as the V's autobox would have been doing
/that in order to accelerate!)