On a trip up to Maine after a concert in Philly there seemed to be a lot of cars looking at the CL-S and thinking how slow it was. Somewhere in Massachusetts on 95 there comes a car, almost out of nowhere and it seems like they want to have some fun. Mind you, it is 4am and no one is expecting to see a car at this time in the morning. The car (A4 1.8t) takes off in the right most lane of 95, leaving 1 lane between us for the slower traffic and so I work on catching up to the car. I didn't know what I was in for, so my friend looked over towards the car as we pass it doing about 95ish. The driver of the A4 takes off again, as do I and we keep running to about 130ish (when the wheels felt like they were off the ground) going around turns and stuff on a road I wasn't familiar with. We then slow down once again when it is a lost battle and look over to see that the driver, a woman, is lighting her cigarette. After the laughing (and crying) stops she begins to go fast again, and again we try to keep up. After about 5 miles of driving she pulls off the highway. Since it was 4am I was trying to figure out where she would be going, or coming from, maybe a stripped burning off excess energy?

The whole time in Maine we were really wondering what was done to the car. After reading about the Jetta 1.8t I am thinking it is really easy for the Audi to be upgraded to run over the CL-S w/o a problem.

Again, I have to be completely stupid for driving so fast without thinking twice.

 

Sounds like it was chipped. Was the chick hot?

 

Get headers and the outcome should be different.

 

The chick was hot, so maybe she was running away? That made it a little better with the loss.

 

Chip alone would not make the car faster than a CLS (well maybe the x-chip but only from a dig). The car might have had an upgraded turbo along with some other goodies. I've run neck and neck with my buddies stage 3 (APR turbo upgrade) A4 and he put down about 224 whp and similar torque.

 

1.8t stock is a dawg!!

 

damn next time

 

I have NEVER been passed by a 1.8 anything on the track...this includes twisties. If they catch up a little in the corners, I put the distance back on in the straights. My friend loves his '03 A41.8 but admits it is damn sloooooooooow (stock).