RE: FW: New Audi ad

[Sargent Schutt <sargent@novagate.com>]

"Hussey, Dan" <husseyd@rayovac.com> wrote:

>The new GS 400 is the ultimate!

Unless my chipped 91 200q is around. Hehe. I raced one of those suxel tubs on
the (effectively abandoned) 210 freeway up in LA a month or so ago. Started at
around 80, I pulled him through 120, then at 130-140 it was dead even, except
he was unable to regain the car length + I got on him from 90-120. Course,
with 8 years and 175k miles, my car is a little more broken in. :-) Stopped at
~140 as we rounded a corner and came rather quickly upon a CHP on the side of
the road. Fortunately he was with a 'customer' in a big rig and did not see
us. Doh!

>It has been totally refined and an all-alluminum 300hp V8 and variable
>valve timing, formula one sounding exhaust and tiptronic shifting (on
>the wheel).....Not to be construed with the rest of the (yawn) boring
>Lexus'!  

I couldn't hear his exhaust. I wonder what he thought of my Stebro? It sounds
pretty cool...

>The amount of technology in that car is simply amazing!  It is truly and
>engineering marvel.  I consider it in the late 90's what the Audi
>5000CSTQ was in 1986.  Truly at the pinnacle of automotive technology.

Yes, they are just about catching up with Audi of the mid 80's. Except they
can't figure out how to drive all four wheels at once. They're halfway there,
though. Hehe.

>This one is a true driving car and can handle on rails as well.
>Traction may be a problem with that much hp and rear wheel drive (even
>with that mediocre traction control system), but on dry land, that car
>would just destory a quattro!  That car is fast, although still a bit
>cushy feeling IMHO.  I guess I'm young and used to a little of the
>"shake, rattle, and roll"...body roll that is! ;)

Sure didn't destroy my quattro, Dan. At least not judging by the view from my mirrors.

>My dad got to ride in the GS 400 pace car at Laguna Seca this year for
>the Cart race out there, and he said that he was VERY impressed with the
>way that handled at high speeds, and the driver was really putting it
>through it's paces.

He should drive something built off a 16 year old Audi platform, with a turbo
tractor motor. Wonder how that suxel will look in so many years? In all
seriousness, the gs400 is a terrific car, but it's not the hottest thing out
there in that category, to be sure. One of the hottest _new_ cars you can buy
for that money, though.

>Later,
>Dan
>(maybee someday I'll be able to afford a USED GS400)

Maybe you should buy something faster, though, something with awd... hmm
nothing comes to mind, though. ;-)

Sarge

91 200q TAP, Bil/Eib, Stebro, Euros, whls, tires, etc etc.

PS: No lives were risked in this exercise, save two willing participants. No
other moving vehicles were encountered, closed track (almost): 4 lanes wide
open, as safe as it gets. I am not reckless. So no whining from the 5 over
crowd, thanks.