RS6FEVR
August 18th, 2003, 17:31
:cheers: all
Spent the weekend adding 250 miles to the “baby”. Overall, this car is an absolute blast to drive (sound enhanced, tip, and sport settings absolutely balls on) and IMHO, definitely worth waiting for. Comparing ride, fit, and finish with traded in ’98 S500 MB and performance against owned and modded Y2K C5 Vette.
Put two coats of Zaino on and the exterior finish is far superior to either of my other vehicles. I love the red (continues to grow on me) a lot and it shines up beautifully smooth. There is a funny little lateral body joint about body side molding height from rear door to wheel well? Seemed like a strange place for a panel joint? Car stance is aggressive and impressive!
As GoFast said in a previous post, the wheels are much nicer than were depicted in photo’s. May just switch tires at appropriate time of season and keep using the current nine spokes.
Doors, windows, trunk, hood and solar sun roof open and close with precision. Very tight finish and quiet, precise operation allow isolation when wanted. The inside handle on the trunk works quite adequately during closing. Battery placement obtrusive, but workable in light of the rear seat fold down adjustment to increase trunk space.
Seats are firm, but comfortably supportive. The lumbar support is nicely adjustable in conjunction with the overall lower seat adjustability. Drove for 1.5 hours straight and didn’t find the ride tiresome at all (of course, acceleration, sport mode and tiptronic fiddling might have had something to do with that!). Adjustability of lower seat length as in MB not missed terribly much. These seats keep you in place as nicely as the adjustable sport seats of the Vette, but with more comfort and the memory functions work very nicely.
Silver alcanterra interior with cf accent is very nice other than rear window reflection in certain light. Seems there’s a little glare off the back shelf on the window and you see the reflection in the rear view.
There is so much to learn regarding dash controls. Love the red background lighting of the gauges and Nav works well, but programming will be somewhat time consuming until I get used to it. Nicely laid out, but much to learn. Radio is far superior to the Bose in the vette, more adjustable than the MB and XM radio going in next week.
Performance wise, this is one quick sport sedan (of course that’s understatement, we all knew that going in!). I think the most impressive thing, performance wise, are the brakes. Anyone who track races knows the importance of braking and these huge brembo’s stop this beast on a dime. I can’t say enough about how good these feel or how superior they are to my performance baers in the vette! WOW. The braking, acceleration and cornering are truly amazing for a vehicle of this size and weight. I’m new to turbo driving, but I think Icon and GoFast had it right, I’m a hooked turbo junkie! You can’t feel any lag (as a new turbo driver anyhow) and the power band is absolutely incredible. You’re put back in your seat going to near WOT and the car just continues to accelerate with a wonderfully sound enhanced, unobtrusive rumble. You’re at 120 before you know it and at 130 (top so far), it rides so solid you feel incredibly in control. I’m very interested if in fact this is speed limited as the manual says? If it is, I’m going to have to find someone to correct the chip for this condition cause I do like high speed (I’ve had my vette to 175, no bragging just crazy) and I might want to run at the appropriate time and place with other fast contenders!
Okay, more to come, sorry for the length, got to get 250 more on her!!
:addict: FEVR :addict:
Spent the weekend adding 250 miles to the “baby”. Overall, this car is an absolute blast to drive (sound enhanced, tip, and sport settings absolutely balls on) and IMHO, definitely worth waiting for. Comparing ride, fit, and finish with traded in ’98 S500 MB and performance against owned and modded Y2K C5 Vette.
Put two coats of Zaino on and the exterior finish is far superior to either of my other vehicles. I love the red (continues to grow on me) a lot and it shines up beautifully smooth. There is a funny little lateral body joint about body side molding height from rear door to wheel well? Seemed like a strange place for a panel joint? Car stance is aggressive and impressive!
As GoFast said in a previous post, the wheels are much nicer than were depicted in photo’s. May just switch tires at appropriate time of season and keep using the current nine spokes.
Doors, windows, trunk, hood and solar sun roof open and close with precision. Very tight finish and quiet, precise operation allow isolation when wanted. The inside handle on the trunk works quite adequately during closing. Battery placement obtrusive, but workable in light of the rear seat fold down adjustment to increase trunk space.
Seats are firm, but comfortably supportive. The lumbar support is nicely adjustable in conjunction with the overall lower seat adjustability. Drove for 1.5 hours straight and didn’t find the ride tiresome at all (of course, acceleration, sport mode and tiptronic fiddling might have had something to do with that!). Adjustability of lower seat length as in MB not missed terribly much. These seats keep you in place as nicely as the adjustable sport seats of the Vette, but with more comfort and the memory functions work very nicely.
Silver alcanterra interior with cf accent is very nice other than rear window reflection in certain light. Seems there’s a little glare off the back shelf on the window and you see the reflection in the rear view.
There is so much to learn regarding dash controls. Love the red background lighting of the gauges and Nav works well, but programming will be somewhat time consuming until I get used to it. Nicely laid out, but much to learn. Radio is far superior to the Bose in the vette, more adjustable than the MB and XM radio going in next week.
Performance wise, this is one quick sport sedan (of course that’s understatement, we all knew that going in!). I think the most impressive thing, performance wise, are the brakes. Anyone who track races knows the importance of braking and these huge brembo’s stop this beast on a dime. I can’t say enough about how good these feel or how superior they are to my performance baers in the vette! WOW. The braking, acceleration and cornering are truly amazing for a vehicle of this size and weight. I’m new to turbo driving, but I think Icon and GoFast had it right, I’m a hooked turbo junkie! You can’t feel any lag (as a new turbo driver anyhow) and the power band is absolutely incredible. You’re put back in your seat going to near WOT and the car just continues to accelerate with a wonderfully sound enhanced, unobtrusive rumble. You’re at 120 before you know it and at 130 (top so far), it rides so solid you feel incredibly in control. I’m very interested if in fact this is speed limited as the manual says? If it is, I’m going to have to find someone to correct the chip for this condition cause I do like high speed (I’ve had my vette to 175, no bragging just crazy) and I might want to run at the appropriate time and place with other fast contenders!
Okay, more to come, sorry for the length, got to get 250 more on her!!
:addict: FEVR :addict: