//S5 who? //S8 what??? ARE ESS SIX!!! Jah mon!
11-29-2007, 06:37 AM
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//S5 who? //S8 what??? ARE ESS SIX!!! Jah mon!
So it finally happened. I finally got to take an RS6 out for a poke in the whiskers - yes, oh yes, finally.
This had been a long anticipated moment. I'd vowed to notch me bedpost with twin turbo'd 4.2ness since their launch too many years ago. I'd sat in them. Caressed them. Finger banged them. Had them rev in me face even.
But not yet violated in an ohso deserving way that I've longed to intend.
Oil temps cannot rise quick enough. Come ON already! I mean, car's only been parked 3 hours since turning its last trick.
In the meantime I bask in sensual delights. The perforated sport wheel stimulates your palms. The textured paddle shifters lay waiting for your invokation. Steering input is immediate - whatever Servotronic labotomy they opted to implement here works. Muuuuuuch better than Alumibitch's was before I ganked its relay. Alcantara headliner has me contemplating ways of suspending myself from it nekkid. Its sport seats while supportive do pale to the Recaro Trophy's donned in der //S8 tho.
The car is docile, tractable, subtle, innocuous - granny could troll around in this all day sans complaint.
Until, that is...
...she kicked the NOW! pedal. The stars blur toward you as you lurch off the line and you surpass Ridiculous Speed do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars and head straight for Ludicrous Speed. Zero to 120? Voila ask and ye shall be doing.
Twin turboness is virtually unnoticed - the only whining you'll hear is your passengers as they plead for your deceleration. Intake note? Absorbed by said turbos. What you do get is 2 things: 1) Sound Enhanced exhaust burble of the utmost addictive and childish nature, and B) the very subtle sound of massive volumes of high velocity air being vortexed through a series of metallic piping. It's entrancing.
Whyohwhy all the "lesser" //S cars suffer with Chictronic yet Ingolstat manages to outfit the masterful RS6 with a nearly flawless paddleshift box that stops just short of being SMGsweetness (and don't knock SMG until you 8,200 an ///M5 through one, nope, uh uh). WHY I ASK!?!? Alumibitch would ohsogreatly benefit from this unit, really, it would. Paging Paul W. / Gabor... please pick up the RS6 trans courtesy phone and hack me up this retrofit - yes?
At full hustle the car is planted, poised, composed, unoffensive - feeling superlatively refined and the direct benefit of SpeedGT Series wins is clearly evident.
Who in their right mind would plunk down $50++large for an //S5 when you can save yerself a wad 'o cash and find one of these gems lightly enjoyed??? At 47k, this thing felt showroom tight showroom smooth showroom awesome. Nary an niggle jiggle wiggle, no where any where.
Returning to the Batcave and letting it idle down for a moment, I step behind and chuckle at the hard to quantify exhaust note. It's ice cold farting at idle (literally fartfartfartfart) then scorches your hand when it's gunned. On decel after said gun, I likened the BbBbBbBbBbBbBbB!!! it makes as it reluctantly returns to idle to God hisself issuing Pamela Anderson a nice resplendent bbbbbbbmotorboat. It's an odd idle note, an even odder decelerative rev'd note, but @ WOT - goodness me - Z28 owners cower and scurry for cover. I had a hard time picturing parking the thing at like a wedding or a funeral and trying to look as distinguished as the rest of the package does. *NO SECRET* as to what's going on under the hood there, no. Me like.
Parked, a series of ticks and tinks begin underneath. Tinks? Yep. I've nevereverever heard a rotor TINK before, but sure, these pretty floating rotos do just that. And I wasn't even hard on them - or the car as a whole really - no need to, the car issues every command with ease and aplomb.
She looks rather peaceful here amongst her proper Uber Sedan stablemates... I think only a trio of playmates engaged in a pajamaticklefight might look (slightly) more entertaining:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/86747/dsc00134.jpg">
I hope to land in one when Alumibitch ends her 5 year tenure here. Which puts this machine - an it is such a manlyman machine - at like, er, 9 years old by then. Will need two things... extendedextended warranty and a traffic attorney.
This had been a long anticipated moment. I'd vowed to notch me bedpost with twin turbo'd 4.2ness since their launch too many years ago. I'd sat in them. Caressed them. Finger banged them. Had them rev in me face even.
But not yet violated in an ohso deserving way that I've longed to intend.
Oil temps cannot rise quick enough. Come ON already! I mean, car's only been parked 3 hours since turning its last trick.
In the meantime I bask in sensual delights. The perforated sport wheel stimulates your palms. The textured paddle shifters lay waiting for your invokation. Steering input is immediate - whatever Servotronic labotomy they opted to implement here works. Muuuuuuch better than Alumibitch's was before I ganked its relay. Alcantara headliner has me contemplating ways of suspending myself from it nekkid. Its sport seats while supportive do pale to the Recaro Trophy's donned in der //S8 tho.
The car is docile, tractable, subtle, innocuous - granny could troll around in this all day sans complaint.
Until, that is...
...she kicked the NOW! pedal. The stars blur toward you as you lurch off the line and you surpass Ridiculous Speed do not pass go do not collect two hundred dollars and head straight for Ludicrous Speed. Zero to 120? Voila ask and ye shall be doing.
Twin turboness is virtually unnoticed - the only whining you'll hear is your passengers as they plead for your deceleration. Intake note? Absorbed by said turbos. What you do get is 2 things: 1) Sound Enhanced exhaust burble of the utmost addictive and childish nature, and B) the very subtle sound of massive volumes of high velocity air being vortexed through a series of metallic piping. It's entrancing.
Whyohwhy all the "lesser" //S cars suffer with Chictronic yet Ingolstat manages to outfit the masterful RS6 with a nearly flawless paddleshift box that stops just short of being SMGsweetness (and don't knock SMG until you 8,200 an ///M5 through one, nope, uh uh). WHY I ASK!?!? Alumibitch would ohsogreatly benefit from this unit, really, it would. Paging Paul W. / Gabor... please pick up the RS6 trans courtesy phone and hack me up this retrofit - yes?
At full hustle the car is planted, poised, composed, unoffensive - feeling superlatively refined and the direct benefit of SpeedGT Series wins is clearly evident.
Who in their right mind would plunk down $50++large for an //S5 when you can save yerself a wad 'o cash and find one of these gems lightly enjoyed??? At 47k, this thing felt showroom tight showroom smooth showroom awesome. Nary an niggle jiggle wiggle, no where any where.
Returning to the Batcave and letting it idle down for a moment, I step behind and chuckle at the hard to quantify exhaust note. It's ice cold farting at idle (literally fartfartfartfart) then scorches your hand when it's gunned. On decel after said gun, I likened the BbBbBbBbBbBbBbB!!! it makes as it reluctantly returns to idle to God hisself issuing Pamela Anderson a nice resplendent bbbbbbbmotorboat. It's an odd idle note, an even odder decelerative rev'd note, but @ WOT - goodness me - Z28 owners cower and scurry for cover. I had a hard time picturing parking the thing at like a wedding or a funeral and trying to look as distinguished as the rest of the package does. *NO SECRET* as to what's going on under the hood there, no. Me like.
Parked, a series of ticks and tinks begin underneath. Tinks? Yep. I've nevereverever heard a rotor TINK before, but sure, these pretty floating rotos do just that. And I wasn't even hard on them - or the car as a whole really - no need to, the car issues every command with ease and aplomb.
She looks rather peaceful here amongst her proper Uber Sedan stablemates... I think only a trio of playmates engaged in a pajamaticklefight might look (slightly) more entertaining:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/86747/dsc00134.jpg">
I hope to land in one when Alumibitch ends her 5 year tenure here. Which puts this machine - an it is such a manlyman machine - at like, er, 9 years old by then. Will need two things... extendedextended warranty and a traffic attorney.
11-29-2007, 07:17 AM
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Good taste David - '94 Euro E500 Limited. That car makes me feel funny down there.
Last 500 made, the coolest color, Andy Warholesque looking "airbrushed" seats (look like refraction of light), Renntech pistol grip steering wheel, 19" AMG's and PS2s, F50 brakes @ all 4 corners with 15" fronts, etc.
<a href="http://www.s-cars.org/postnuke/modules.php?set_albumName=DanMacsfest07&id=IMG_256 2_copy&op=modload&file=index&name=gallery&include= view_photo.php">as seen @ //SFest 2007</a>
It hammahs 8-).
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It hammahs 8-).
11-29-2007, 07:20 AM
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Sorry, Bill - its trans is fine and doesn't need a removal or three but thanks!
I cannot imagine snows on the thing - eek!
Shod with spanky new PS2's right now, the Lord's Own Tire if I'm not mistaken...
Shod with spanky new PS2's right now, the Lord's Own Tire if I'm not mistaken...
11-29-2007, 07:58 AM
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Re: //S5 who? //S8 what??? ARE ESS SIX!!! Jah mon!
Boxed in by an E500 and an M5? Bloody nice 
And I agree with you, the sound of the RS6 at idle (and accelerating) is difficult to put into words. And yes, plenty of ticking from the rotors. Veddy niice!
And I agree with you, the sound of the RS6 at idle (and accelerating) is difficult to put into words. And yes, plenty of ticking from the rotors. Veddy niice!
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11-29-2007, 08:17 AM
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Ah, Olu - so you too have imbibed in the hedonistic pleasure of RS6dom - kudos.
Jah, its "company" IS bloody nice. Missing from that shot tho is the modded GT2 8-): <img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/86747/dsc00138.jpg">
*THAT* thing is a f'n handful @ 180 8-).
*THAT* thing is a f'n handful @ 180 8-).
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Re: '94 Euro E500 Limited.
The fenders were always a dead give away on those cars. The S8 is fantastic, but if I came upon an e500 on the street, I'd have to be careful with it. Wouldn't be the normal one-way conversation I can have with most other cars.