Holy crap! i just test drove a 1.8t 1997 a4, automatic..., and was suprised about how stinking slow it was. do you think that i was just not used to the automatic and didn't know how to work it yet? hmm if you guys know anything that could cause a bunch of power loss let me know. thanks guys

 

where did you drive it, and if not at an audi dealer, then there could be something up that would make it slower. Don't by if thats what you were driving it for untile its looked at by a pro.

 

was it a hot day

 

Have you ever driven one you know wasn't broken before? If you have no frame of reference, then let me make this clear. A4s are F*CKIN SLOW. With you in it, it weighs about 3450lbs. It has 150 horsepower. A manual version does the quarter mile in about 16 seconds. The automatic version has never had empirical data gathered on its acceleration, because no one has had the patience to run it down the quarter mile, or those that have are ashamed to publish the information they gathered.

Sorry to keep shattering this facade that Audis are all monstrous autobahn stormers.

 

this is wut audi claims

Performance

* 0-60 mph in seconds:
Front-wheel drive, automatic: 9.1
Front-wheel drive, manual: 8.0
quattro®, automatic: 9.8
quattro®, manual: 8.1
* EPA fuel economy estimates (mpg) - city/highway:
Front-wheel drive, automatic: 21/30
Front-wheel drive, manual: NA1
quattro®, automatic: 20/29
quattro®, manual: NA1
* Top track speed: 130 mph2

9.8 secs 0-60 wow but im sure in real life its gonna be slower then that

 

You know, Panda, I don't think they'd exaggerate this kind of claim. Besides, how much worse could it possibly be? I was thinking maybe 8.7 or so, but basically 10 seconds 0-60 is atrocious. I doubt there was anything wrong with the car you drove, Persmacky. My car probably does about 7 seconds even, and it seems slow to me. I can't even imagine how slow that car must have been. My mom's Prius goes 0-60 in 9.1. Hahahaha.

 

u kno low stock HP with heavy curb wieght thats the forumla for performance

 

almost 2 seconds faster in a manual than in the automatic! why do they even make cars that slow? how am i going to make it up into the mountains to use my quatro? rediculous... hmm.. well thanks guys

 

oh ya and i was wondering if anyone knows what the times or hp would be on this car if i chipped it? would it be that much faster? i just don't know if i can live with a car that slow for that long.. anyone that has chipped an automatic i would really like to know how much better it performed! thanks

 

Get a manual, or, failing that, get a chip. Mileage is the same, power is waaaaaaaaaay better, and it's cheap and easy. The stock manual one is slow, but it will outstrip first-gen Miatas and most good cyclists.