Re: Bimmer boy crashes the guestbook at Audi-S-Cars

[four.rings@mcione.com]

Darin Nederhoff wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> It seems that a BMW "Elite" (gustav.traff@bmwm5.com) has signed my
> guestbook and even placed a nice picture of a new M5 there for me.
> http://venus.guestworld.tripod.lycos.com/wgb/wgbview.dbm?owner=AutoBahnia
> 
> He writes:  " It is an acknowledged fact today that the BMW M5 has
> created a very different and entirely new market
>  segment growing in popularity world over: the sportscar in disguise.
> These cars are characterised only by the most outstanding
>  achievments in technology visible at the first sight only to the driver
> of a BMW M5. Simply adding some turbochargers and an
>  S canīt make it. Sorry to say, but no Audi could even be close in terms
> of performance than the new 1998 BMW M5 with
>  400 HP."

All this hp delivered to the rear wheels will make a nice cloud of smoke and
some screeching noise, which should no doubt impress local teenagers, while the
S4 will quietly leap forward. I am not even talking about taking corners in the
rain here ...
Coz then it will then be called an "unfair advantage". 
We all remember what a beating BMW cars took from Audi in the Touring Car series
(1-2-3, sometimes 1-2-3-4-5 wins for Audi) and how BMW showed it's retrograde
face by forcing the ban of the quattro technology AND withdrew from the
competition altogether. Of course: the self-proclaimed "ultimate driving
machine" could not afford to lose so miserably.

BTW what were the results of BMW rally efforts? Frankly, I don't remember any.
I do remember the times when Audi Quattro ruled the WRC single handily though.

Oh, wait, I'll take it back: the 400hp Bimmer will have that traction control
thingy which will be clapping the driving wheels, effectively reducing the
torque and hp to the acceptable level (rumor has it - no more than 200hp for a
2WD car). So where will that all hp go, which the ///Monstrous engine struggles
to produce? Smoke, methinks.
:-)

A Bimmer guy visiting a dedicated S-page and bashing Audis - that wouldn't be an
inferiority complex, would it? Just wondering ...
I also wonder why Audi outsold BMW in their #1 and #2 markets: Germany and Great
Britain.

--
Igor Kessel
Two turbo quattros