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No, I most certainly did not. I just wanted to know how much they were. Yes, I'd be willing to order a 2013 without test driving it first. The few reviews so far don't note the electronic power steering as being much of a change (for good or bad) from the driving dynamics side. And, I don't...

So I put 6266.441 gallons of premium unleaded in my 2002 Nissan Maxima SE while I had it. My average fuel economy for those gallons was 23.8891MPG. The most I ever paid for gas was $4.509 and the least was $1.359.

The best part is that I'm sure said employee doesn't think she did anything wrong.

They just brought back the flat bottom wheels on the S4 in Europe with the facelift. Previously there wasn't a flat bottom wheel offered in the S4 (but was in some other Audis).

Well, you will be able to buy a flat bottom steering wheel from Europe for a facelift B8 and install it yourself if you really want one. However the price I was told by a vendor on Audizine was just short of $1k for a red stitched wheel without airbag or paddles. :crap: The material Audi...

It looks like the US 2013 facelifted S4 doesn't come with the flat bottom steering wheel they get in Europe. From the unveiling at the NAIAS in Detroit: Courtesy of Motor Trend

FWIW, apparently the general consensus is that it is not recommended if you have small children since they could be injured if they're not sitting properly when it goes off. Since kids tend to fall asleep in odd positions you can't guarantee they'll always be sitting properly. Some people also...

I'm not sure myself if there are any pros or cons. I plan to dig into this specific question myself before ordering. The Allroad looks sharp. But, I'd take the S4 with the 6MT over an 8 speed automatic all day long and twice on Sunday. Audi has systematically dropped the Avants because they...

Avant = wagon. Unfortunately the Avant was dropped in the US with the B8 S4 in 2010. If it were still offered I'd get one.

FWIW, the 2010-2012 B8 S4 did not have a flat bottom steering wheel in the US.

The car has a flat bottom wheel in EU-land. It's not entirely clear if the US is getting the flat bottom wheel or not. I'm not sure myself. I wasn't aware it had them either.

Get an ESD ground strap.

You guys find stuff worth watching on HBO & Showtime? :confused: Even when I got it for free in promotions and the like I never watched it.

Winter tires are likely to be at least $800 in a 245/40/18 size probably closer to $1k for the factory 18's. A stylish set of 18" wheels (that you like) is likely to be at least another $1k. So, yeah it'll be over $2k by the time your said with swapping rubber, mounting, and balancing, etc...

That's pretty much all it is on any display. Drop the analog portion and change the connector. The electrical signals are the same. In Merc's case it sounds like the EDID data for the monitor is not consumer video gear friendly.

FWIW, I think the VMR is more stylized and the Hartmann is a more accurate copy. I have seen weights listed various places though I can't seem to find them now. The Forgestar F14 is just under 18lbs in a 18x8.5 size. The 18x8 Hartmann RS4 rep is just over 25lbs if I recall correctly. The VMR...

If the standard wheels on the 2013 Premium Plus are the same as the 2012 I plan to run them as the winter wheels and get different wheels for the rest of the year. I really like the B7 RS4 wheels shown on that red S4. I was thinking to get reproductions of them from VMR or Hartmann. However...

Some pictures from the unveiling at the NAIAS today.

While I'm not a raving JT fan, he is pretty entertaining when he's hosted SNL and when he's on Jimmy Fallon. Now, back to the S4... Handy, are you planning to get use the stock standard factory 18" wheels as your winter wheels?

Your reception issues sound worse (no pun intended) than I've seen firsthand in XM/Sirius equipped cars I've ridden in. However, I've found it to be complete unlistenable. I would listen to AM radio before I fired up XM/Sirius. I don't remember the exact numbers now, but I think all their...

I think you got the wrong thread. The ATS is a new car and therefore should go in the I don't want to buy a used car thread. :p

USB Optical drives and USB floppy drives exist for a reason. :bomb:

Well, when it was new XM / Sirius used to be free for 1 year and they gradually shortened the length of the free term. Same thing with OnStar in GM cars. XM/Sirius would definitely not get renewed by me. I think it sounds absolutely terrible. Reportedly this new MMI supports bluetooth audio...

The MMI in the 2013 S4 is newer than the one in your A3, though I'm not sure exactly how the feature set varies beyond it having a 3G connection. I would expect it to be more capable in terms of voice commands, but who knows.

Yeah, I saw pictures of a black & red Silk Nappa interior with the red Kevlar / CF trim installed and IMHO it is too much.

AFAIK MMI is not required for bluetooth on US B8 S4's. As I understand it the 2012 MMI adds voice commands. The 2013 has a updated MMI similar to what's in the Audi A6. I'm not very clear how exactly the feature set differs with the 2013 MMI. I'm not real keen on the car having a 3G T-mobile...

Which Blue are you looking at? In either case I don't think you'd want to mix the black and red nappa leather with blue paint. No advanced key? I originally wanted the Audi carbon inlays, but the ones from oCarbon look so much better, plus you can get carbon fiber on the instrument and MMI...

Who cares if he did some advertising for them for a car not even sold in the US? It's not like Justin Timberlake is painted on the hood or is the start up image in the center stack LCD.

So, I'm pretty sure I will be ordering a 2013 Audi S4 6MT as my next car. Assuming the 2013 has the same options as the 2012 currently I plan to get a Premium Plus 6MT with the following options: Monsoon Gray Metallic Silk Nappa leather upholstery in Black and Red Interior Audi MMI Navigation...

Branching off from the discussion here in the I don't want to buy a used car thread... It's time to talk Audi S4.

I'm not sure he wants to wait 20 years for that to come out. :-D

It was about 50F here yesterday. I washed the 2003 Malibu yesterday in the driveway with a sponge, bucket, and my power washer. I could tell it hadn't been cleaned in quite a while. I also vacuumed out the inside, washed the windows inside, wiped down / cleaned all the plastic in the...

PS: AFAIK the only place you've ever needed a crossover cable was going between two LAN adapters without a hub or switch which isn't your scenario anyhow.

They're not anymore if you're dealing with gigabit. Some 100Mbit stuff has auto-MDIX also.

I found the Wired article on that cookbook interesting.

Some shows went HD in the very late 90's.

Do you care to re-write this so it might be understandable to someone who is fluent in English?

My guess is he has a lot of processors cranking out WUs, but they're older systems so he's not getting the point bonuses for returning them quickly.

Happy New Years everyone!

I thought it was 100m :p

There is a reason I have a full blown Windows 7 PC connected to my TV / AV system.

What sort of break-in procedure did you follow on it? FWIW, my car's clutch outlasted the car at 9.75 years and just less than 150k miles. It would hold no problems in 6th gear with the pedal floored on the freeway.

:erm: I'm not real sure about that interior. The price also subjectively seem a tad steep for a 2009 w/ 16k miles.

What don't you use remote desktop? There's a hack to enable it on Windows 7 Home Premium.

Now that it's the 25th... Merry Christmas!

:skepo: Well, do you have ABX testing to show that it actually sounds better? If we hypothetically assume that a CD player from 2008 sounds better than one from 1983 it's probably due to improvements in DAC design. However, this is a total non sequitur to our original discussion where Doug is...

I never said that 16bit 44.1kHz audio was "perfect" or couldn't be improved upon. You however made the absurd and preposterous claim that other software players would sound better than Foobar despite Foobar's perfect reconstruction of the original PCM audio being sent to the DAC. Now after the...

It happens while playing at a close to real time rate to keep the output buffer full. The decompressor will have the same output regardless of the speed at which it's decompressing. Yeah, that's a reasonable approximation of the signal /format path.

I'm sure somewhere, but why take someone else's word for it when you can prove it for yourself? I just tried it. I converted a .flac file to a .wav with the official windows FLAC software and then with Foobar2k. I used RIFFStrip to toss the headers and then did a fc /b on the two raw PCM...

Yes really... There's no such thing as a perfect transducer (speaker driver) which is one of the reasons why speakers sound different from each other. There are perfect decompressor (software algorithms). We can easily prove that Foobar's FLAC handling is perfect by converting a FLAC to a...