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subieboy

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Hi Team

Thanks to all that we have met and known on the forums, Many of you are personal friends and or highly thought off.

She started with ciggy's thrown at my car (I still say on purpose, she says it was an accident = me says Yea rite woman) Anyway she was a right royal trip while it lasted - long may the BH5 live, kinda doubt it knowing who I sold it to ...

I still have the trophy wife (yes the one that threw the ciggy's at my car's bonnet scoop), but sadly we have sold off our last Subaru for now, She (the trophy wife - did I mention she is hot yet? I didn't? Oh dear better get that in quick 'fore she reads this and I is in the ****. She is f**king hot). Now where was I? Oh yes, She is not enamored with the latest offerings from Subaru (TBH me neither really). But still we have two minions, not yet a dog and a new car... All thanks to Clubsub

At least it is still AWD...

Will still be on the forum but no longer cruising a 'Baru

See you round troops.

Ripping up tarmac circa 1997 to 2014

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 newsuba said:
not a hater but the voice of reason...

:cool:

i wouldn't have pegged you for a levorg lover.

can i interest you in a tribeca ?

:D

tribeca? lol.

The Levorg would be my choice of station wagon... which unfortunately I am forced to own...

the Legacy has turned into an old man's car.

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 kwi_fozze said:
Tribeca with a f**k off big turbo? Mighty car mods are doing a conversion into a legacy, but no reason why it couldnt be done in the tribeca itself......

Coz its like an old man with viagra. It will give the goods but it aint cool.

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 kwi_fozze said:
Doesnt that sum up family wagons though?

Nope thats more of a quiet guy with an epic wildside besides STI wings change all that. Always thought the high power foz were pretty epic but it means you have to put a heap more work into it purely because of power:weight. Ive only got 50kg on a sedan.

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 loner said:
I agree audis are nice. $90,000 for the 2.0 litre... is kinda up there, and only 155kw.

350Nm of torque though...

:)

Buying new is for the birds, used B8's can be found from mid-30s up.

Proper Torsen AWD, not that crap Haldex, and rear biased 40/60 !

Avoid the craptastic CVT and go for manual or S-tronic twin clutch gearbox.

If you are flush the 3.0 turbo diesel or supercharged S4 is a better drive than an RS4.

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 newsuba said:
350Nm of torque though...

:)

Buying new is for the birds, used B8's can be found from mid-30s up.

Proper Torsen AWD, not that crap Haldex, and rear biased 40/60 !

Avoid the craptastic CVT and go for manual or S-tronic twin clutch gearbox.

If you are flush the 3.0 turbo diesel or supercharged S4 is a better drive than an RS4.

Agreed, in the end the Euro Passat got us (Audi was a bit steep for me on 2n hand - damn my Scots Irish, dutch German heritage sometimes)

The Haldex diff thing I am not sure how it affects real world driving. Test drove the latest Audi's/VW/Skoda 2012 models and only went for the 4motion/Quotro/etc **** front wheel drive I thought.

In the end the same VW offer to the Audi was 8K cheaper... plus it is a top of line model (no sunroof, I kinda always thought I would miss it if I didn't have it again, but I didn't actually remember what I sued the sunroof for and I only just recall that it doesn't have one and the others did as I type this... ramble ramble, blubbler blubbler, blah blah blah)

So 3.2L V6 4 Motion Passat with all mod cons - except that sunroof that no-one ever uses but MUST have - whats up with that??? anyway thats what we drive and it is rather nice. Official feul had it pegged at same as our old legacy, but **** me the thing was pulling 7.7L/100Km/h on the motorway at uh hum hum hum 100Km/h mr Constinoon...

So pretty chuffed so far really

Oh yea took an RS4 and S4 for spin, RS4 is a real hoot but couldn't handle that **** daily, S4 far more nicer

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what year is your passat ?

haldex awd is basically a part-time/ on-demand system used in vag cars with transversally (across the nose) mounted engines.

its a reactive system in which drive is mainly to the front wheels until they lose traction, then electronics and hydraulics moves drive to the rear until the front grips again.

cars with longitundinal engines get a fulltime, torsen system. confusingly both are called quattro by audi, vw calls it 4motion.

pros - cheap, easy to implement, effective

cons - can be slow to react, needs to detect slip before apportioning power, worse case can lead to unpredictable handling in demanding situations, generally the newer the car, the better the haldex system will be.

in the latest golf mk7 r the system is seamless and in magazine tests has enough grip to out-corner the latest sti. :)

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Got an 08. Took it for a jaunt up to Hanmer and back. I got used to it very quickly, the mrs reports that it handles differently to the GTB...

Uhm well duh GTB modified up the wazoo with being lowered, braces, all sorts of goodies.

Passat is standard...

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