5-speed A4 1.8TQ

[gwf@joker.ho.lucent.com]

After 4+ months of waiting, my wife's 5-speed A4 1.8TQ came in about
two weeks ago.  We finally picked it up about three days ago, and haven't
been able to tear ourselves away from the steering wheel ever since.
A few observations and a couple of questions:

* We are glad that we got the 5-speed.  We weren't particularly 
impressed with the automatic that we test drove.  The 5-speed reponds
MUCH better.

* We got the Tropic Green color.  Talk about BRIGHT and attention
grabbing.  My wife loves it though.

* Handling is great...Too many buttons on the radio...Could be a little
roomier...But we all know about these things.

Now the questions:

* It seems that you need to shut the doors FIRMLY.  The doors have a 
tendency to bounce off the closed position if you don't push hard 
enough.  Is this normal?

* I am only 5'11, and yet I can't adjust the steering wheel high 
enough for me to see all the gauges clearly.  German engineering?

* The head-rest seems to sit kind of far back...

* My wife complains about vibration through the gas-peddle.  There's
definitely some vibration there, whether it's normal or not, I am
not sure.

In the 3 days that we've had it, my wife's already put a few hundred
miles on the car, including its first dent!  Urrrr...Something fell 
out of a truck and hit her bumper squarely...