A+ well done

Actually the only shared parts between the two 4.2's are the coil packs, and the only real shared trait is the displacement. The motor shares a lot more with the FSI V8 in the Q7. The chain guides are completely redesigned and are all aluminum with plastic friction reducing pads vs the all plastic ones that are…

awesome, Ive been daily driving a 2007 RS4 for the past year. love the chassis!

How’s it sound at startup? getting a death rattle at all?

COTY

I mean, sure, he gets the thinnest sliver of credit for that... but even handles that aspect in the most dangerous way possible because he didn’t want to put trailer-able wheels on it.

the hottest of takes

There are lucky breaks when things go wrong, and there’s wanton disregard for your own well being... at least for me, I try to avoid the wanton disregard part.

I mean, I can ignore a kid who wastes his own money on his own shit killing his own self... but his universal lack of understanding and respect of why things are built a certain way is inexcusable. I cant believe nobody got injured putting ramps on ramps and using unsupported planking as a ramp extension, then…

my problem is the universal lack of any common sense with anything. That kid is alive thanks to dumb luck and dumb luck alone. Hes gonna run out of it some time, and probably soon.

all the stars are belong to you

The same insurance company repaired it last year after he rear ended someone, they’re probably tired of his shit.

Thanks! Cheers!

you are probably right, though subject to semantics. I should have clarified as direct injected instead of “Fuel Stratified Injection” engines, as I have seen at least one case with all variants of the 2.0t direct injection motors have catastrophic failures at some point (TSI, FSI, TFSI)most notably my friend blowing…

Considering that the 2.0t FSI motors, over all generations, are beginning to get the reputation of being delicate as glass, yeah.... that’s impressive. Ive had multiple friends munch motors on stock turbo tunes. The stout 1.8T’s of yesteryear, these are not...

RS5? you mean RS3?

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Sorry to hear your experience here is different. Hopefully it gets more positive. P.S. its empirical fact that brodozers and stancemobiles suck. ;)

I used my 1993 Audi S4 as a recce vehicle on a stage of the NE Forest rally a number of years ago, 3 months after buying it with 225000 miles already on her. I had a tow strap hooked to the front tow point and everything. It only bottomed enough times to cause one exhaust leak, and the heat coupled with the number of…

That’s the thing, its a Maytag of cars. Its so reliable and unobtrusive you forget what it is, just that it does its job. Which is fine, and there’s no hate for them in the “real world”. But being Jalopnik, the hatred is perfectly understandable. We are here at this site versus consumer reports because we look for the…