Benman
August 26th, 2003, 21:48
well, here goes...
i picked up the Beast on Friday night after work and as you would expect i was in a very good mood. When i pulled up and saw my RS 6 parked there in front all ready having just been washed and polished my smile grew from ear to ear. The head finance guy and salesmen were there waiting for me at the door. He obviously could see my HUGE smile and said "that smile says it all".
My reply was "giddy as a school boy". The guys there were absolutely fantastic. we were done with all the paperwork in only 36 minutes (and that's including the 5-10 minutes of yapping about non RS 6 related stuff). We spent another 5 minutes outside going over the important stuff and then i was off.
The drive home was so exciting. Yes, i have driven the car before on the Autobahn even, but it still is not the same as taking your own car home. Yes! Home! Finally! Keeping the Beast to within even reasonably close to legal limits proved to be a mighty challenge. But i kept telling myself "you waited this long what's another 1000 miles for break in".
I can honestly say that i was a good boy and not once did i take it past the 5000 rpm mark for the whole first 600 miles. in the manual it notes that after that you can gradually bring it closer to the redline until you reach the 1000 mile mark. as of this typing i am currently at 845 miles (i WILL be done with break in TONIGHT!) and have YET to floor The Beast even ONCE!!! Those of you that have yet to take delivery will not understand the level of self control required to acomplish this task!:hihi: I HAVE used 3/4 throttle and believe me, that is already very impressive power, enough to shrug off most contenders.
This baby has a great steath factor with the "average" person on the road (no gawking as if driving a Viper). It is however a DEAD give away with people who are enthusiats as well as most Audi drivers (a couple in a black S4 gave me an entusiastic "2 thumbs up:0: )
Just last night while driving home an IS 300 pulled up next to me on the freeway @ 85mph and wanted to race. At first i wasn't sure because he didn't really floor it. just accellerated away. So i sped up and passed him. When he caught back up he didn't look over this time. Instead he down shifted into what sounded like 3rd (cause it really sounded like he dropped the :bang: ) and took off. I wanted to be nice so i gave him a 5-10 second lead. Then i shifted into 4th (remember, keep rpms under 5500) and gave the car 3/4 throttle (again, i actually listened to the manual). The amazing thing was i didn't NEED full throttle. Not even close. Not even kind of close. Now, i'm not knocking the IS 300 because it's a great car and would probably give a 2.7T a decent run for the money but it was simply not even a race. It was a slaughter. An execution. The IS looked like it was braking for goodness sake! Such is the power of this Beast:bow: I can't even imagine what the butt whooping would have been like if i actually shifted into 3rd and FLOORED it!!! (for those of you that feel sorry for the IS 300 or think the match up unfair remember, I didn't PICK the fight. He did. I just ended it!)
My experience so far proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that this baby was worth the wait. The handling and stability are just outstanding!!! And the speed goes without mention. Oh the memories once this Beast is actually broken in!!!:cheers:
Ben:addict:
BTW, the reason this post is called two sleepless nights is because i was so busy with previous plans during the weekend that ALL Friday AND Saturday NIGHT (while everyone else was asleep) were spent putting those miles on the car!!!). I figured i could get plenty of sleep Sunday night:hihi: :cheers:
i picked up the Beast on Friday night after work and as you would expect i was in a very good mood. When i pulled up and saw my RS 6 parked there in front all ready having just been washed and polished my smile grew from ear to ear. The head finance guy and salesmen were there waiting for me at the door. He obviously could see my HUGE smile and said "that smile says it all".
My reply was "giddy as a school boy". The guys there were absolutely fantastic. we were done with all the paperwork in only 36 minutes (and that's including the 5-10 minutes of yapping about non RS 6 related stuff). We spent another 5 minutes outside going over the important stuff and then i was off.
The drive home was so exciting. Yes, i have driven the car before on the Autobahn even, but it still is not the same as taking your own car home. Yes! Home! Finally! Keeping the Beast to within even reasonably close to legal limits proved to be a mighty challenge. But i kept telling myself "you waited this long what's another 1000 miles for break in".
I can honestly say that i was a good boy and not once did i take it past the 5000 rpm mark for the whole first 600 miles. in the manual it notes that after that you can gradually bring it closer to the redline until you reach the 1000 mile mark. as of this typing i am currently at 845 miles (i WILL be done with break in TONIGHT!) and have YET to floor The Beast even ONCE!!! Those of you that have yet to take delivery will not understand the level of self control required to acomplish this task!:hihi: I HAVE used 3/4 throttle and believe me, that is already very impressive power, enough to shrug off most contenders.
This baby has a great steath factor with the "average" person on the road (no gawking as if driving a Viper). It is however a DEAD give away with people who are enthusiats as well as most Audi drivers (a couple in a black S4 gave me an entusiastic "2 thumbs up:0: )
Just last night while driving home an IS 300 pulled up next to me on the freeway @ 85mph and wanted to race. At first i wasn't sure because he didn't really floor it. just accellerated away. So i sped up and passed him. When he caught back up he didn't look over this time. Instead he down shifted into what sounded like 3rd (cause it really sounded like he dropped the :bang: ) and took off. I wanted to be nice so i gave him a 5-10 second lead. Then i shifted into 4th (remember, keep rpms under 5500) and gave the car 3/4 throttle (again, i actually listened to the manual). The amazing thing was i didn't NEED full throttle. Not even close. Not even kind of close. Now, i'm not knocking the IS 300 because it's a great car and would probably give a 2.7T a decent run for the money but it was simply not even a race. It was a slaughter. An execution. The IS looked like it was braking for goodness sake! Such is the power of this Beast:bow: I can't even imagine what the butt whooping would have been like if i actually shifted into 3rd and FLOORED it!!! (for those of you that feel sorry for the IS 300 or think the match up unfair remember, I didn't PICK the fight. He did. I just ended it!)
My experience so far proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that this baby was worth the wait. The handling and stability are just outstanding!!! And the speed goes without mention. Oh the memories once this Beast is actually broken in!!!:cheers:
Ben:addict:
BTW, the reason this post is called two sleepless nights is because i was so busy with previous plans during the weekend that ALL Friday AND Saturday NIGHT (while everyone else was asleep) were spent putting those miles on the car!!!). I figured i could get plenty of sleep Sunday night:hihi: :cheers: