One invincible A8 and a cool driver.

[Andrew Pawlisz <apawlisz@tufts.edu>]

Here is an incredible story from eastern europe.  Last Sunday, a German
tourist was driving his A8 somwhere in western Poland.  Suddenly, three
cars appeared from nowhere.  One got in from of him, one behind, and one
on his left.  Next, the hoodlooms made an attempt to box him in and
drive him off the road.  However, the driver kept his cool and kept on
driving and somehow managed to escape the ambush.
Now, what the report does not say is how he did manage to escape.  What
it did say, though, that he saved his neck by keeping his cool, having
excellent driving skills (all Germans have that), and more importantly,
having a superior automobile.
I wander what makes this automobile so special to allow it to escape a
3-car box ambush.  I speculate that: 1. The hoodlooms were amateurs and
did not want to wreck their cars in the process and let the guy go
seeing that he is not going to stop, or 2.  The crooks were all driving
Lada's (maximum speed 45 mph (downhill)) and could not match the speed,
traction, manouverability, nor the power of an A8.

If option 2 is the case, like the report suggests, I cannot stop to
laugh at the goofs.  First of all, they should have seen the movie Ronin
and should have educated themselves as to what an A8 can do (I think
that it was an A8).  Second, they should not have had underestimated a
ticked-off, road rage-prone westener who has to deal with single-lane
highways and farm equipment and animals every hundred yards.  Third,
they should have had realized the inherent shortcomings of their
equipment.

My question to A8 owners out there is whether their vagens are indeed
superfast tanks on wheels and whether they would use the abilities of
their cars to escape the hoodlooms like that guy did.

Andrew

Boston, MA
88 5ksq

Another incredible story next week, stay tuned.....