A6 4.2 remorse ...

[ccohen5@compuserve.com]

Just kidding, I drove the A6 4.2 yesterday as a pennance for the 
lousy deal I did on a trade of my 92 100CSQ, which is another 
story altogether. Here are my i
pressions. At last some power, in fact enough to feel that you can 
take a gap on a two lane, or slot around a truck on the 
interstate. But I must say not as quick as 300 hp would sound. The 
power comes quite late, after 3000, which to the extent that I was 
motoring in the 100 it was the same. Handling was a little 
disappointing. The ride is very firm, which surprised me because 
you can provoke u/s quite easily despite the Q. This is not the 
case with the 540 or the old M5 for example. None of the early 
ones come with Nav/GPS or the warm weather shades. These will only 
be seen around Xmas. This is mostly a dealer problem as the order 
codes changed and most dealers did not know it. So when they input 
the required code and the result was rejected, they gave up. 
Instead of calling Audi who would have told them that the A6 V8 
and S4 have different codes from their less endowed bretheren. 
Mine is due next week, and I have to come up with a solution to 
the ride issue. As you have already read the tires are Dunlop 
9000s on 17" with /40 aspect ratio.