So I'm out at Office Depot this fine afternoon getting myself some storage bins. I pack my bins up, hop in my car and pull out onto Roselle heading towards 90. As I pull out there's a break in traffic so I light up 1st gear, get squirrelly and hit 2nd before letting off and seeing the telltale running lights of a S5.
He pulls out aside me and we hit the light but we're in rush hour traffic so no go there. As I pull away from the light he gets behind me and I see "RS 5" on his front grill. Oh yay. At this point I have zero idea what's under the hood of this car. My brother had an S5 and with just 350hp that was kind of anemic but that was 2008 and Audi has since significantly stepped up their game with respect to horsepower numbers. I have no idea what to expect though.
So we're trolling about, a minivan in front of me and him behind me, the entrance to 90 quickly approaching and me praying to my god of choice that the minivan in front of me doesn't get onto that entrance...
... and it doesn't but I do and as I do I look in my rearview mirror, this time hoping to see the turn signal of the RS 5 signal that he's coming along for the ride. And he does... So I give it a little gas to see if he goes and bam, he's right on my ass. So then I do what any semi-sane person does, downshift a couple gears and take the fuck off. It wasn't a strong pull but it was a pull. He probably trailed 3 cars by the time I had to let off and though I didn't look, I'd assume we were merging onto the expressway and speeds far beyond the legal speed limit.
So I get home and see it's a 450 hp V8, all aluminum car. Good matchup and just about exactly the outcome I'd expect given his all wheel drive losses and 300lbs additional weight. Not bad for a piddly 3 liter inline 6.
Good lord is this hot though...
He pulls out aside me and we hit the light but we're in rush hour traffic so no go there. As I pull away from the light he gets behind me and I see "RS 5" on his front grill. Oh yay. At this point I have zero idea what's under the hood of this car. My brother had an S5 and with just 350hp that was kind of anemic but that was 2008 and Audi has since significantly stepped up their game with respect to horsepower numbers. I have no idea what to expect though.
So we're trolling about, a minivan in front of me and him behind me, the entrance to 90 quickly approaching and me praying to my god of choice that the minivan in front of me doesn't get onto that entrance...
... and it doesn't but I do and as I do I look in my rearview mirror, this time hoping to see the turn signal of the RS 5 signal that he's coming along for the ride. And he does... So I give it a little gas to see if he goes and bam, he's right on my ass. So then I do what any semi-sane person does, downshift a couple gears and take the fuck off. It wasn't a strong pull but it was a pull. He probably trailed 3 cars by the time I had to let off and though I didn't look, I'd assume we were merging onto the expressway and speeds far beyond the legal speed limit.
So I get home and see it's a 450 hp V8, all aluminum car. Good matchup and just about exactly the outcome I'd expect given his all wheel drive losses and 300lbs additional weight. Not bad for a piddly 3 liter inline 6.
Good lord is this hot though...
