At 10:47 PM 2/28/00 -0500, Ben Randolph wrote:
>
>> From: Patrick Austin <[email protected]>
>>
>> A 225hp TT with a 6-speed sounds like a great car. I'd DEFINATELY take it
>> over the Boxter/Z3 (a boxter S is a different story). Just don't go and do
>> any high-speed driving with it. Apparently they're STILL having problems
>> in germany.
>
>over thanksgiving break, my g/f and i decided to take a day trip to the
>adirondacks to go snowboarding. driving up the NY state thruway, we hit
>real bad ice. (at one point, traffic was moving at 3mph, and i had to
>drive in second gear cause first would spin the tires and send my car
>sideways.) every half a mile, some car would be in the guard rail, in
>the trees, flipped over, or wrapped up with another car. (BTW, most of
>the "cars" were actually SUV's)
>
>anyway, getting to the point, i got to see the underside of a TT.
>it still had temp tags on it.
Well, if it was icy, it probably wasn't the 130+ mph instability that
caused it. Or, at least, I hope not!
Apparently they've been having major problems. Several people have been
killed in weird accidents. A professional driver was killed in one this
fall; on a strait road with no wind the car spun and killed him. Audi KNEW
about this beforehand and didn't want to add a spoiler and ruin the shape
of the car. From what I've read in Auto Week and some other industry-esque
pubs, this sounds like a story that could be a PR nightmare. OTOH, if they
really did know about the problem, they deserve whatever bad press they
get. On the other other hand (the third one, I guess), anyone going that
speed does so at his/her own risk. On the fourth hand, in germany, those
are semi-legal speeds and a modern sportscar should be stable at them.
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