Audi Kool-Aid

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <01bd0f49$bbbb85a0$5fec7ece@matthewp> matjen@xsite.net writes:

> Before you folks burn me at the stake I must make a few more points in 
> my defense.
> To those using BTCC, etc. as an analogy, I think you are way off.  My 
> point on handling was meant in reference to other cars which Audi 
> competes against in the marketplace not in all-out racing.  I am talking 
> about driving through the twisties with other stock cars.  Although I 
> don't know the exact rules, I would suspect that BTCC cars are much 
> lighter, better balanced, more powerful, stiffer, and have huge wheels 
> and brakes when compared to a stock A4.

But we're not comparing the BTCC A4 with the others in stock form - we're 
comparing it with them in BTCC form.

Reduce all of them to stock form, and the comparison still holds.  More so, in 
fact, because the others objected to Audi's 5-valve per cylinder technology, 
too.

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club