Picked up my S8 on Friday
04-30-2007, 09:09 AM
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Picked up my S8 on Friday
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/115615/p1000622sm.jpg"></center><p>Yeap. It's finally here.
Daytona Pearl Gray, black interior, black roof. With just about all the extras, including ceramic brakes and comfort seats - but no B&O.
I drove 1300Km over the weekend and came out with the best impressions. Basically a nice, fast luxury sedan when driven smoothly at "D" and a beast when driven hard at "S".
The brakes are very impressive. You can probably bruise a shoulder if you brake too hard. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the brake response is faster and brake assistance is higher when at "S"?
The adaptive cruise control is also quite impressive and works much better than I anticipated.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to get rid of the speed limiter and enable the daytime running lights.
Thanks to all for your help.
Lefteris
Daytona Pearl Gray, black interior, black roof. With just about all the extras, including ceramic brakes and comfort seats - but no B&O.
I drove 1300Km over the weekend and came out with the best impressions. Basically a nice, fast luxury sedan when driven smoothly at "D" and a beast when driven hard at "S".
The brakes are very impressive. You can probably bruise a shoulder if you brake too hard. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the brake response is faster and brake assistance is higher when at "S"?
The adaptive cruise control is also quite impressive and works much better than I anticipated.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to get rid of the speed limiter and enable the daytime running lights.
Thanks to all for your help.
Lefteris
04-30-2007, 11:13 AM
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You lucky bast@#$! A very beautiful car!
Who needs B&O anyway, however, there's a B&O store in our local Phipps Plaza Mall, and I do drool over their offerings when I walk by their store.
Who needs B&O anyway, however, there's a B&O store in our local Phipps Plaza Mall, and I do drool over their offerings when I walk by their store.
04-30-2007, 11:21 AM
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I want one! Congratulations... more pics when you get a chance. I too was...
impressed with my adaptive cruise. I have only once been able to fool it, and that was by overtaking a bicycle, and all hell let loose. But that's the only time. After reading some threads I was worried that I would hate it, but it's been great so far.
04-30-2007, 03:20 PM
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Used adaptive cruise on a drive to Tahoe over weekend
Mountainous highway route. Generally worked and tracked things accurately. It got faked out by a semi in the slow lane to the right on one straight run and it started to hit the brakes pretty firmly before I canceled out. That miss should not have happened. It also mis-judged a vehicle in the other lane just before entering a curve as being in front of me. That one can be explained by my car not yet having any steering movement to confirm an upcoming curve but the other car already turning and therefore "in front" of mine, albeit in the next lane. In all other cases--dozens--where my vehicle was "in the curve" together with others or it exited a curve following others it read the situation correctly.
Actually far better performance than some of the posts would have me believe, especially given the challenges of mountains, lots of concrete medians in sweeping curves, lots of slow trucks, bad road surfaces, poor lane markings and twilight conditions. Similar in performance to the Toyota Sienna I have w/ adaptive cruise as far as reading situations, though obviously in a whole different performance league as far as how the two power up when the cars need to get back up to speed.
Actually far better performance than some of the posts would have me believe, especially given the challenges of mountains, lots of concrete medians in sweeping curves, lots of slow trucks, bad road surfaces, poor lane markings and twilight conditions. Similar in performance to the Toyota Sienna I have w/ adaptive cruise as far as reading situations, though obviously in a whole different performance league as far as how the two power up when the cars need to get back up to speed.
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Congratulations! With regard to daytime running lights
In Car, go to Systems, Exterior Lighting and it should be in there unless your country coding excludes it, in which case coding a central European country code in with VAG-COM or similar should fool it, although it would possibly change other country-specific behaviours.
What's the speed limiter set to?
What's the speed limiter set to?