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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
Good lord, 4057lbs??  Did they make the frame rails out of lead or something? BMW did that with the M5 too. I don't know why manufacturers are making such f'ing heavy cars these days, there's no good reason for that. That car may be fast as it is, but it would sure as hell be a lot faster minus 1000lbs. |
Hey, you know all that noise and clunking and tranny noise and dash creaks and exhaust noise your 3200lb, 250hp car has? Try adding another 200hp and a ginormous automatic tranny to it and keep it quiet and buttoned down... you'll see how good they did keeping the weight under 4500lbs!
Same deal with the M5.... if you want a "luxury" car ride and "sports" car handling you end up with a heavy-ass car with TONS of horsepower. And even then, the handling is gonna suffer from the weight, even if its 0-60 numbers are in Corvette's neighborhood.
The mistakes they made with the RS-6... that tranny has GOT to go. If you're gonna bother with paddle shifters, they better be connected to an SMG-esque sequential gearbox. Tiptronic is CRAP. It's just a plain old auto-tranny that the user can ask, "hey, you mind shifting now? no? okay, well, I'll just wait then for you to shift when you want." If you're gonna have a sequential gerabox, when you hit the button, that fucker needs to clutch in, gear out, clutch out, auto blip the throttle, clutch in, gear in, clutch out RIGHT NOW. Otherwise, a plain old 6 speed is better.
The other mistake was the looks of the car... 'cept for the cool RS6 badge, it still looks like every other A6/S6 to me. They should have given it some less subtle changes so the general public knows that things a beast... like special edition rims, a little extra body cladding, some extra brake vents or something!