Test Driving B6 S4 today...
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Test Driving B6 S4 today...
Just today I drove a 2004 S4 offered for sale at a dealership an hour north of here. As I walked around the car I noticed how SMALL it seemed. With the driver's seat all the way back there wasnt but a couple inches between the rear seat and the front seat back. Once my kids got in the back I noticed it felt like I have MORE rear-seat room in my rx8, than in this car.
Getting in the driver's seat I SLAMMED my right knee into the center tunnel. Owwwww!
I started the car and smiled at the purring sounds coming from the engine and the exhaust. I glanced over at my wife - she didn't look happy. It wasn't the car, it was she noticed I looked happy. In her eyes I saw her mind's gears turning, counting the dollars we'd soon be spending each month on ANOTHER 'darin' car.
Out of the parking lot, and onto the road.
Holy. ****. Yup. I said it. I may say it again. At the first traffic light I looked around for Coppers before doing "just" a 2000ish RPM launch.
BAM! the car literally SHOT forward. No fuss, no muss. Just Speed ON demand. And the sound was awesome too - like a muted version of the SRT8, more exotic, but every bit as muscley. Down around the next corner, I could feel the car clawing the wet pavement. With each stab of the loud-button at the bottom of my right foot, the car would thrust ahead with an aggressive but never out-of-control feeling.
Hells yeahs...I was laughing and smiling. My wife was holding her neck from the driver-induced whiplash.
VERY VERY VERY Nice.
until it ran out of gas.
Yeah - when I got in the car I noticed 1/8th tank of fuel remaining. I figured the car would have at LEAST 5 gallons left - plenty for a test drive. I had just turned onto the freeway when I heard a BEEEEEEEEEEEEP and a large fuel-pump icon appeared in the center of the guage cluster. Within 1/4 mile the car was stuttering and sputtering and flashing CELs. I lucked out and found a close exit. I had to COAST down the off-ramp, and luckily thru a recently-turned-green light to a bus-stop area off the main road.
Would YOU expect a car to run DEAD with this much fuel 'showing' on the gauge? It's pert-near 1/8 tank. I figured there should easily a few gallons left. Plenty for a 15-20 minute test drive, imo.
http://www.sph33r.net/upload/files/12/S4outofgas.jpg
Good thing I had the cell # to the salesman. After about 15-20 minutes getting very familiar with the inside of the car, he showed up with fuel. After 5 gallons of gas, the car started..eventually...but ran so poorly, I took it straight back to the dealership. They apologized a LOT - and started pushing heavily to tell them what it'd take to make the deal happen. I told him I never buy the first day - and doubt I'd want to buy the car now, anyway, unless it had a full check up at an Audi dealer. Cat-Coverters suddenly getting HOT from a lean condition might go bad.
Anywho, I left with a hand shake, and a GOOD idea of what my next car will be.
btw - In the s4? think 6-8 baby-kegs, or 4 dead hookers - if they were petite.
Getting in the driver's seat I SLAMMED my right knee into the center tunnel. Owwwww!
I started the car and smiled at the purring sounds coming from the engine and the exhaust. I glanced over at my wife - she didn't look happy. It wasn't the car, it was she noticed I looked happy. In her eyes I saw her mind's gears turning, counting the dollars we'd soon be spending each month on ANOTHER 'darin' car.
Out of the parking lot, and onto the road.
Holy. ****. Yup. I said it. I may say it again. At the first traffic light I looked around for Coppers before doing "just" a 2000ish RPM launch.
BAM! the car literally SHOT forward. No fuss, no muss. Just Speed ON demand. And the sound was awesome too - like a muted version of the SRT8, more exotic, but every bit as muscley. Down around the next corner, I could feel the car clawing the wet pavement. With each stab of the loud-button at the bottom of my right foot, the car would thrust ahead with an aggressive but never out-of-control feeling.
Hells yeahs...I was laughing and smiling. My wife was holding her neck from the driver-induced whiplash.
VERY VERY VERY Nice.
until it ran out of gas.
Yeah - when I got in the car I noticed 1/8th tank of fuel remaining. I figured the car would have at LEAST 5 gallons left - plenty for a test drive. I had just turned onto the freeway when I heard a BEEEEEEEEEEEEP and a large fuel-pump icon appeared in the center of the guage cluster. Within 1/4 mile the car was stuttering and sputtering and flashing CELs. I lucked out and found a close exit. I had to COAST down the off-ramp, and luckily thru a recently-turned-green light to a bus-stop area off the main road.
Would YOU expect a car to run DEAD with this much fuel 'showing' on the gauge? It's pert-near 1/8 tank. I figured there should easily a few gallons left. Plenty for a 15-20 minute test drive, imo.
http://www.sph33r.net/upload/files/12/S4outofgas.jpg
Good thing I had the cell # to the salesman. After about 15-20 minutes getting very familiar with the inside of the car, he showed up with fuel. After 5 gallons of gas, the car started..eventually...but ran so poorly, I took it straight back to the dealership. They apologized a LOT - and started pushing heavily to tell them what it'd take to make the deal happen. I told him I never buy the first day - and doubt I'd want to buy the car now, anyway, unless it had a full check up at an Audi dealer. Cat-Coverters suddenly getting HOT from a lean condition might go bad.
Anywho, I left with a hand shake, and a GOOD idea of what my next car will be.
btw - In the s4? think 6-8 baby-kegs, or 4 dead hookers - if they were petite.
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