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Road and Track Tested 7 AWD sedans - guess who is #1

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Old 01-30-2006, 03:53 PM
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Default Road and Track Tested 7 AWD sedans - guess who is #1

A4 1.8T S-Line supsension
Old 01-30-2006, 04:11 PM
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yup... noticed that too. quite impressive for the small engine in the group.
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is the s-line suspension different from the sport suspension offered on 2005.5 models?
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B7 S-line suspension = B7 sport suspension
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Correct, although now it is only 10mm lower -- 2005.5's and early 2006's were 20mm
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Yep - my bad.
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Default I'm still surprised that the sport suspension is now only 10mm

Where does it say that?
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???why would of audi changed the sport suspension and suspension in the s-line from 20mm to 10mm???
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It's on the AoA website. "Sport suspension" as part of the Sport package in 2005.5 and as part of the S-Line package in '06 used to say "20mm lower ride height". Now it only says 10mm as of the recent update.

My guess it has to do with whiney Americans complaining that the ride is too rough. Probably the same ones who complained about the lack of cupholders and who can't fit into sport seats. :-P
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It also says that there is one rear fog light when there are two actually. Checked with Alex on the Canadian forum who works at the Mississauga Audi dealer and he mentions that it's still 20mm.

The sport suspension since the B5 has always been 20mm lower, can't think of a reason why they would have reduced it only by 1 cm now.


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