http://www.guba.com/watch/3000009649?pp=5&premium=0&o=4

Everyone has seen this right? I hope so, it's a blast to watch. I've had in saved for a while, but I just figured out that there's a place that hosts it for easy watching anywhere. Think of it as "Audi History for the Busy Professional". :D

And yeah, I know this probably should go in "Sights and Sounds" but Off-Topic has so much more traffic.....

OK, i'm convinced... I want an Audi

edyt: and make it a w - i - d - e - b - o - d - y

I just happened to look outside and, GUESS WHAT?!?!?!? I already HAVE an Audi!!! And, best of all, it's a W - I - D - E one

Are you making fun of my NOT having an Audi anymore? Is that what you're doing? Is that your general intent? I have to say, MAN, that's cold.

But I'm over it now. I mean, who would want such a wide Audi when you have to have 17 jobs just to pay for the thing. Imagine all of the legal hookers you could put through college without those car payments! Yeah, didn't think about it that way, didja? ;)

hmmm it stops playing after about a minute...im deleteing temp files and shiit...not sure if that helps. i googled it and guba was the only site that hosts it.

yes! it worked. i deleted temp internet files, and all offline content. cookies too.:D


what a vid that was. makes me want an RS4. right now. (look out the window and see my non-sport b5 [&:])

that video is off the hook! I will watch it again right now... and agian later and again after that probly.

wow, great video.. thanks!!! Its a must watch!

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

Are you making fun of my NOT having an Audi anymore? Is that what you're doing? Is that your general intent? I have to say, MAN, that's cold.



Honestly, no, I wasn't. That's more of an uninteneded side BENEFIT:D:D:D


ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

But I'm over it now. I mean, who would want such a wide Audi when you have to have 17 jobs just to pay for the thing. Imagine all of the legal hookers you could put through college without those car payments! Yeah, didn't think about it that way, didja? ;)



Only 9 of the 17 jobs go towards car payments, another 9 are for child-support, 4 are for illegal hookers, 6 cover car repairs and upgrades/mods, and 1 is for food & housing.

That's an awesome vid. When he's driving the rally car through the crowds...man, it almost made me sick to my stomach!

My payments are only $550.00 a month, and worth every single penny. I love my car....I gotta try that throttle-on-left-foot-braking technique through the twisties!!!!

ORIGINAL: SP4NK3R

....I gotta try that throttle-on-left-foot-braking technique through the twisties!!!!



It's gonna take LOTS of practice to get RILLY good at it. It's the technique I used when I raced karts, in Europe. Not professinally, mind you. We hadda loose group of lunatiics and we'd hit different kart tracks on weekends, and race for bragging rights, mostly. I RULED!!! but then, I've spent many, many years hauling asphalt on European mountain roads, and left-foot braking:D Driving a turbo helped, too, cause the "public" carts are severely underpowered[:-]

Great video, its probably the best I've seen yet of the Quattro racing history, the driver commentary is awesome. Freakin awesome to see Audi destroying those big V8s About the left foot driving technique...isn't it the same concept as heel and toe driving? They're both used to keep the engine at a certain RPM so theres no turbo lag. I know in A4s heel and toe driving is not easy because the brake is spaced too far from the throttle and is so damn high.

ORIGINAL: Trey25

Great video, its probably the best I've seen yet of the Quattro racing history, the driver commentary is awesome. Freakin awesome to see Audi destroying those big V8s About the left foot driving technique...isn't it the same concept as heel and toe driving? They're both used to keep the engine at a certain RPM so theres no turbo lag. I know in A4s heel and toe driving is not easy because the brake is spaced too far from the throttle and is so damn high.


Left-foot braking is similiar, but not really teh same. With left-foot braking you basically keep the clutch engaged and throttle on teh firewall and control BOTH your corner entrance speed AND corner entrance attitude (think RALLY-style cornering, it IS AWD after all, and you basically have ALL 4 wheels pulling you around teh bends) with your left foot ON the brake. Keeping the throttle MASHED (and, therefore, ON BOOST) is the key element. Not rev-matching, as you would with heel&toe driving. Similiar, but different;)

BTW, the reason the brake-throttle distance is SO GREAT in Audi is because of that whole unintended acceleration, from back in the alte 70's/early 80's. Phugkin OLD people and their American driving styles[:@]

[sm=youreright.gif] it is similar but different.

unless you're running from teh cops I wouldn't recommend trying it on dry pavement, but, winter'll be here, soon enough:D

Amazing video! Thanks!

I wish there was a place where it could be downloaded, though... I want to save it.

The saved version I have is 134MB. If anyone knows where I could host a file that size that you can download from, I'd be happy to put it up there.

ORIGINAL: AWDaholic

Left-foot braking is similiar, but not really teh same. With left-foot braking you basically keep the clutch engaged and throttle on teh firewall and control BOTH your corner entrance speed AND corner entrance attitude (think RALLY-style cornering, it IS AWD after all, and you basically have ALL 4 wheels pulling you around teh bends) with your left foot ON the brake. Keeping the throttle MASHED (and, therefore, ON BOOST) is the key element. Not rev-matching, as you would with heel&toe driving. Similiar, but different;)

I drive all of my auto-trans equipped cars with both feet, right-accel and left-brake, so it comes very naturally to me in a manual. The trick is that my turbo car that needs left foot braking (the seven) has almost no room in the footwell to allow for easy transition, and the car that had plenty of room for it (the M5) didn't need LFB, it had this snazzy thing called "mAAAAd torkz" and RWD.


For the kidies who might go out and try this....
Left foot braking will usually increase your lap times (I say lap times because I don't want to sound like i'm condoning street racing) in non-turbo cars since you have to brake a little bit earlier to account for the little bit of time that you have to get off the brakes to switch feet, and without having to fight the turbo lag, there is no benefit. Depending on the balance of your car however, you might experience some understeer on the gas, in which case you can tap the brake while still accelerating to help get a little more weight on the front to bring the back around. I would only recommend trying this in a very big parking lot at first.

That's a cool video.

I thought it was funny when Hans Stuck was talking about "driving this car at the end of my career at 37" and I believe that he still drives for BMW now. That's a nice racing career.

Watching that Grouppe B footage at the beginning of that vid was wild. I remember when they cancelled that series because there were too many spectator deaths and (Porsche had produced the 959 and Ferrari had the F40) the organizers said that it was too dangerous because the cars were too fast. I was thinking - "Why don't they just move the damn people off the edge of the road and it might be a little safer? Why cancel such a cool series?

i'm with p, canceling grouppe b racing is one of the saddest things that's ever happened to racing...def the worst thing that's ever happened to rally racing

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

The saved version I have is 134MB. If anyone knows where I could host a file that size that you can download from, I'd be happy to put it up there.



the places i know of are 100mb hosts. hmm you can send it to me via AIM instant messager :D

I could use Movie Maker to split it into two parts, I suppose. Post the link to the place that'll do 100MB and I'll see what I can do when I have time.

check here: http://need4speedx.free.fr/video_audi.php

but the voice overs are ALL in French...

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

I could use Movie Maker to split it into two parts, I suppose. Post the link to the place that'll do 100MB and I'll see what I can do when I have time.



rapidshare.com

but, after you dl the first half, you have to wait awhile to get the other half, if your not registered. maybe somone can tell us of a better site hopefully.

ORIGINAL: PJTocci

rapidshare.com

but, after you dl the first half, you have to wait awhile to get the other half, if your not registered.

Doesn't sound terribly "rapid" then does it? :D

Does it cost anything to register?

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven


ORIGINAL: PJTocci

rapidshare.com

but, after you dl the first half, you have to wait awhile to get the other half, if your not registered.

Doesn't sound terribly "rapid" then does it? :D

Does it cost anything to register?




lol...i think it does.

Hey, I tried that left foot braking/throttle on, it works really well and it's really easy!

At first the braking is a little touchy but it turns out you just counter that with more throttle, real easy, can't wait to push it a little more.

it's even MORE fun in tha snow, once you get good at it, and if you have AWD you can practice your drift too

i knew there was a reason i liked these cars so much

ORIGINAL: sicc.steez

i knew there was a reason i liked these cars so much



+1. Better than the RWD BMW I was gonna buy.

I just love the snow so much. Quattro Season.

ORIGINAL: PJTocci


ORIGINAL: sicc.steez

i knew there was a reason i liked these cars so much



+1. Better than the RWD BMW I was gonna buy.

I just love the snow so much. Quattro Season.


only two prolems that I've ever experienced with AWD:
1. When you lose traction in the snow and ice, you lose it with ALL 4 WHEELS simultaneously
2. With a manny tranny, trailing-throttle, in the snow, at speed, can defeat your ABS by stopping the tires rotation long before you can get your foot onto the brake pedal... Wich I now know:)

thank you, sir! i've been looking for this video for a while. the last time i saw it, i had to hand crank the 8 1/2 foot dish to the satellite hosting "informational programming". i've been trying to explain how badass the old audi turbo quattros were in racing history to friends, especially the left foot braking in corners to counter turbo lag and shoot them through the corners. now, i have documented proof. don't have a turbo in mine, but this helps explains the attraction to traction.

man this is pure sex. everytime i watch something like this it makes me want to go and abuse my car.

Put "Secrets of Speed" on your iPod Video, put "Cocaine" (http://media.putfile.com/1-DJ-Tom-X---Cocaine---Bush-Remix) on your CD player, and I promise you the most abusive drive humanly possible. :D

i dont have an ipod :(

Jeez man, step into the millenium. What kind of self-respecting Gen-Yer doesn't have an iPod? How can you live like that?

I don't have one either.

What's an iPod?!??!?:D

Hahaha, yea i dont spend money on that stuff. Maybe someday.

Bump for the mods. C'mon, everybody loves this loverly video, and here is is stuffed away pages and pages behind other random crap. This is the video for the Audi enthusiast, I don't know why it isn't a flash intro for this site yet. :D

I was gonna flame you for diging it up, but you have a good point.

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

~I don't know why it isn't a flash intro for this site yet. :D



I say we boycott the RSQ7 section until they make it so!!!

Due to popular demand, and the fact that it is just a great vid!! This thread is officially "Stickied" :D

does that make me and silver audi activists. YES. I always wanted to be one. HAHA

does that make me and silver audi activists. YES. I always wanted to be one. HAHA

yayyyyyyy

ORIGINAL: AWDaholic


ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

~I don't know why it isn't a flash intro for this site yet. :D



I say we boycott the RSQ7 section until they make it so!!!



How many of you went looking for teh RSQ7 section?

hmm maybe we should create one.. and send a link to Audi.. maybe that will inspire them to make one:D

I have a stickied thread. That r0x0rz my s0x0rz.

It didn't even take much cajoling, judst a simple request and mild public outcry. I wonder if that works for everything...

SilverSeven for Moderator.

(this post was paid for by the Friends of SilverSeven for Moderator Election Commitee)

You forgot to say "and I approve this message" lol

Excellent vid...There should be a rule that every member must watch it.

Would it be possibe to put this on something like limewire?

Yeah, theoretically, anyone who has it saved to their hard drive would just have to copy or move it into any of the files that they have marked for sharing with Limewire or Ares.

nice video watched it all..... at work.... got paid for it...... yep

About the left foot braking.. its main purpose is not to prevent turbo lag, ie trubo rwd cars on the track do not use this technique, it's main purpose however is to rotate the car around the turn. Anyone ever try goin fast on gravel.. turning is not easy and you typically get alot of understeer. That is why rally drivers flick the wheel out and then in and if neccasary the e brake to get the back out.. then use the brake to get it more out and the throttle to bring it back in. This controls the slide through the turn.

best video.... ever.

Word.

Great video, Loved it.. very unique how the pros readjusted to the Audi.

I just watched it 3 times in a row :)

That is about the coolest videoo i have ever seen.

Makes me want to gut my car first thing tomorrow and name my first born quattro.

sooo.... ill be back geting an audi! hahah. i cant wait to get mine.

now that video is voted the best Audi awd by me of course and a lesson in history:)

tocci i gotta ask.. is that you in your avatar? that's frick'n hilarious! lol

Whenever you start thinking you are a pretty good driver, watch that video and realize how bad you would get owned by that guy. He is just sick.

If anyone can get me the full video, I will host it. PM me.

What you ought to do is make it available as a torrent. I have no idea how to make a torrent, but I'm sure you could figure it out from like BitTorrent.com or Torrentz.com or Mininova.com or whatever.

That video is awsome! Thanks for the link. It makes me want to go out and try to do some left footed braking right now. I have to agree with them though. Driving a quattro in the rain does feel awsome.

ive got an a3 1.8t, any suggestions on where to start modifying. i put on a coil over kit and lowered it to 50mm is it a good idea? trip computer dial light is off, exhaust flexi joint cracked a couple of problems any suggestions?

go into the a3 forum haha

Mate, thanks for sharing the best video I have ever seen. Wish, I can download it somehow. Audis are pure German engineering. Benz and BMWs are for the cheapskates pretending rich wannabees...if you respect technology...Audi is the way to go.

Thanks again!

Well, I did appreciate your thanks, then you call me a cheapskate pretending rich wannabe.And just like that, I don't like you anymore. Funny how that works.

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

Well, I did appreciate your thanks, then you call me a cheapskate pretending rich wannabe.And just like that, I don't like you anymore. Funny how that works.


Well, I am sorry if I offend you, and you being a BMW or Mercedes driver (I didn't know that)...I used the word (Cheapskate), as I come across so many people those who buy BMWs and Benzs just for show and know nothing about cars, this is especially true in North America. In Europe, people understand and buy cars which are more technologically advanced and better, not just for the logo on the hood. Every time I hear people talking about car, their usual conversation is ...if I will have money..I will buy BMW, or I will buy Mercedes, It's my dream to own a BMW..etc...and these are those people those who don't understand the difference between a V6 and straight6...they don't know anything about BMWs or Benz...but just want to buy it as they have better name recognition in NA (Anyone living in Europe will tell you a different thing, as Audis are well respected there).

I do understand that their are many enthusiastic people those who love BMWs and Mercedes, just like we love the Audis here, but I am talking about the majority of people those who buy that two brands.

Personally, Irespect BMW and Mercedes, but for me the Audi is above it, not because I own it, but because I believed it and then owned it. The video on this thread just proves that. Audi's Quattro is the best AWD, can you say the same about 4matic??

Anyway, as for liking me or not. I am simply ignorant to care.;)

Nissan's ATTESSA E-TS Pro is the best AWD, if you really want to get down to brass tacks.

And I love Audis just as much as anyone else on this board, but I'm sick of hearing people hating on anything that's not an Audi without knowing a damned thing about them. And them peopl esaying that the majority ofBMW and Mercedes owners buy for status only, you really think that the majority of Audi owners doesn't do the same thing? The people on this board represent a different selection of the spectrum, the simple fact that they are here is evidence of a greater interest in the cars and their technology, but you think that the average person knows anything more about Audis than what the salesman tells them? And to suggest that all Audi owners are somehow greater beings who buy Audis completely for their technological merits, while alllowly BMW and Merc owners buy them solely forstatus is, as you mentioned, ignorant. Sure the majority of BMW and Merc owners don't know the difference, but the majority of Audi owners don't either.

ORIGINAL: SilverSeven

Nissan's ATTESSA E-TS Pro is the best AWD, if you really want to get down to brass tacks.


Talking about Nissan's AWD is like arguing that French makes better cars than Germans...one can keep on arguing just because one thinks so. The kind of people I was talking about... you give them 50K and ask them to buy a car...they will buy BMW, or a Benz, in just blink of an eye. However, you won't agree because you think Nissan AWD is better than Quattro, oh btw, have you the video you have posted at the start of the thread?

It's like you are mentally set to prove Audi is no better than BMW/Benz, and I am mentally set not to let you prove that.

Shalom!

Hans Stuck is mad funny

ORIGINAL: avantgradeA6

Hans Stuck is mad funny



i couldn't agree more if there were two of me.

For more Hans Stuck being really funny check out the BMW M speed channel test drive, and if you haven't seen it, your going to have to get it from www.mininova.org (torrent site), thats the only place I've found it, or just check for the next time it will air on Speed. Highly recommend watching, especially Nocturnal, this video will show how rich in heritage BMWs are, belive me, what you said about BMWs and MBs it totally false, but of corse there are people who lease/buy even Audis because they like the badge on the grille.

Very cool video. Thanks for sharing. Quattro- gotta love it!

Hot. Simply hot is all. I am now in the market for a Ur. garage secret weapon. muwahaha!

nice ha

Great video. I really enjoyed that ALOT

Great video!

At 14.27 what is that little (doddoodoo) noise?
The blowoff valve? Those sounds normally just happen when you get a really big turbo?

Don't know much about cars, but tryin to learn:D

ORIGINAL: pangus

At 14.27 what is that little (doddoodoo) noise?
The blowoff valve? Those sounds normally just happen when you get a really big turbo?

Don't know much about cars, but tryin to learn:D



Uhhh...that was just the skid of the rubber on the asphalt. He didn't even let off the throttle.

ok, I'm not gonna lie to anyone, this video series literally chokes me up. I'm SOOO proud to be an Audi owner and carry on a very tiny piece of this incredible heritage.

oh, btw... dont know if it's been said yet, but all three parts of this are on youtube. search secrets of speed. enjoy, have a box of kleenex on hand, you'll find out why... :eek:

Awesome video.

Best video on I've ever seen. Makes me proud to be an audi owner.

^ i second that

best EVER!!!!

What a beast! I am so glad I have the same quattro technology in my car!!!!

Its just not far,,,from dirt to snow, from dry pavement to wet roads, quattro is king. Seeing that video makes me fall in love with Audi all over again.

And im def trying the left foot braking,,,never thought of the turbo lag, master that, and it gives you an even more unfair advantage,,,