AUDI'D RICHADA RATE THE A4 2.0 TFSI S LINE?

Advantages: Acceleration. Style. Build Quality.
Disadvantages: Power Delivery. Driving Position. Price. Equipment. Soulless. Fuel Consumption.

...THE GARAGE? At 4703mm long and 1826mm wide, unless you have a particularly small one, yes it should indeed fit inside your garage. WHICH SPECIFIC MODEL? At £27,830 (aren?t these modern day ?Cortinas? getting pricy?) and packing 211bhp, the Audi A4 2.0TFSi S Line, that I am reviewing here, is towards the top of a bewilderingly comprehensive range of models. It is the most powerful and expensive four cylinder front wheel drive A4 saloon. The A4 range starts at £20,485 for the 118bhp 1.8TFSi and tops out at a whopping £33,700 for the 237bhp 3.0 TDi Quattro (four wheel drive) Executive S Line. With each engine configuration Audi offer a quattro (four wheel drive) variant ? indeed I will be offering an argument for not offering certain models, the 2.0TFSi included, with only front wheel drive. IN WHAT CAPACITY AM I REVIEWING THIS CAR? This is...

RICHADA 03.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Audi A4 2.0 TFSI

This car is a statement...

Advantages: Class, Understated Looks, Ride, Luxury Toys
Disadvantages: High running cost, and err..high running costs

...While other prestige vehicle marquees such as BMW, with their jaw-droppingly "controversial" 7-Series and Mercedes' opulent S-Class try in their own away to scream "look at me, I've made it in life", the Audi A8 takes a refreshingly different approach to luxury transport. The car looks highly understated, but the muscular, stealthy lines simply say "I'm well endowed, wanna make something of it?". The shape does however exude the kind of class expected of a car costing the same as a small house. And NOBODY would EVER call it ugly. Take that BMW 7. As for the interior, age just cannot date this vehicle. The interior lives up and even exceeds the imperious reputation that Audi has earned itself for peerless quality. Not even the 2003 MB S-Class can claim to be superior in terms of craftmanship and quality than the A8's sumptuous...

kebabhead 29.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Audi A8 4.2

A8 Audi

Advantages: Looks Stylish
Disadvantages: Low drag in corners

...Audi?s aluminum A8 is a handsome beast. There?s nothing retro or classic about it ? the rounded shape is bang up to date. Despite its soft styling it still looks strong, as a big car should without being overly aggressive. The rear end is square, but the kicked-up flanks look perfect. Despite being quite light, the 2.8-litre version is certainly no hot rod, with just 174bhp and 185lb ft of torque on offer. The 3.7-litre versions obviously improve substantially on these figures, but add seven and a half grand to the asking price at the same time. The 2.8-litre takes 11 lazy seconds to reach 60mph and the in-gear times are sluggish, too. In the engine?s defence it feels smooth and strong, if not quick-revving. The automatic gearbox is partly to blame. It has no ?sport? mode, and while it swaps ratios smoothly, it often refuses to kick...

jonlucaz 10.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Audi A8 2.8 

ASUS A8N-E BEST MOTHERBOARD I EVER USED

Advantages: EVERY ADVANTAGE, SPEED, RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE. A GREAT ALROUNDER.
Disadvantages: I COULD FIND NONE

...would rise. I did all I could to stave off this surplus heat, I had 5 fans in the case including the CPU with a good heat-sink and I went for the larger 120mm diameter case fans too. Getting the flow correct to ensure proper ventilation is very important (not much point one fan working against another!). This week I had one of my units go down - kaput! The most used of my PC's using the ASUS A8N-E running for up to 16 hours per day over more than 2 years deserved a break! Well I cannot be certain that it was the motherboard that gave up but I feel there was an intrusion of some small metallic item, I will never know! I have a second unit of course, the one I am using now, I had changed all the pluggable components such as Graphics card, RAM, CPU, and everything possible but although the board stayed alive, (I know this because the LED was...

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Review of ASUS A8N-E - motherboard - ATX - nForce4 Ultra

Intel Pentium 4 2.4b

Advantages: Very fast, highly overclockable, quite cheap now
Disadvantages: None

...cheaper platform for modern PC's but there was a significant performance loss as a result of SDRAM being grossly inferior when powering a Pentium 4 processor. So things moved on and faster processors came and went until the introduction of the 'B' series of P4's. The 'B' signalled the start of something very special not least as this was a newer, smaller and much faster micro chip which was also cheaper to produce. The Pentium 4 'B' chip was named 'Northwood' and the 'Willamettes' days were now numbered, the Northwood had many many improvements over its older slower siblings and this is where we start the actual review of the Pentium 4 2.4B Northwood. The Pentium 4 2.4B requires a whole new socket format (socket 478) motherboard as the CPU is alot smaller than its Willamette predecessors and therefore these newer CPU's cannot simply be...

Rabid 17.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Intel P4 2.40B 512KB S478 Box 533FSB

Audi A4 2.0 saloon

Advantages: Quality of construction, good looks
Disadvantages: Small interior, engine lacks low-down torque & power

...The Audi A4 2.0 is a handsome high quality car with a smooth highway ride and generally low noise levels. Interior The interior is snug for 4 occupants although those in the rear seats should not be taller than 1.7M as legroom is limited. The seats are well constructed for comfort but lack sufficient sideways restraint for more enthusiastic cornering. The seat longitudinal adjustment is by lever located on the left, a bar across the front of the seat would be simpler to locate. The rake and height adjustment controls work well. Elegant entry or egress is thwarted by the low roofline that forces passengers to contort somewhat, particularly in the case of rear seat occupants. The drivers door armrest does not have a handle on the inner end making for a long reach when closing a fully opened door. Footwell and pavement...

DanielDuggan 26.07.2004 (12.08.2004) · Read review
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Review of Audi A4 2.0

ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe - An Experiment

Advantages: A motherboard with an exciting array of new features
Disadvantages: These new features haven't quite had all the creases ironed out

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fuzzyworm 19.05.2007 (21.05.2007) · Read review
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Review of ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe AiLife Series - motherboard - ATX - 580X CrossFire

ASUS A8V-XE "a great companion for your s939 CPU"

Advantages: Stability, Overclockingfriendly & also Dirtcheap
Disadvantages: Not really only minor annoyances

...-E 16x BIOS: Phoenix, ACPI RAM Support: max 4X1GB (in 64bit OS) up to PC-4000 DDR500 Audio:6-channel onboard HD-Audio provided by SoundMax or digital out via S/PDIF USB: Supports up to 8 High-speed 2.0 USB Ports As I can´t possibly list all specs without transforming this review into a manual ;) so this will have to suffice, if you need/want more info then go ahead & visit the ASUS site to download a manual in .pdf format. I hope by writing this somewhat brief review (my first one actually) that the reader/s got some needed hints/info before making the descision to go for a purchase & that the buyer enjoys the board as much as i have done/still does. note: the edits were done on request as nobody knows all about everything, so I will try to explain better &/or let people know what i expect them to know in order to understand...

krille282 01.12.2007 (02.12.2007) · Read review
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Review of ASUS A8V-XE - motherboard - ATX - K8T890

Grand Touring

Advantages: feeling gorgeous*...
Disadvantages: ...in an expensive dream car

...unanimously passed the laurels for 2006 and 2007 to this magnificent car and his supercharged big brother, the XKR. Earlier prejudices against the brand established during the bad production decades between 1975 and 1995 have been completely erased. Well, more than 400 HP were too much for my wife, so we settled for the "small breasted" XK with the 4.2 L engine, eight cylinders and little less than 300 HP. Now, if anyone is interested in specific technical details please visit the following link: www.jaguar.co.uk For now just a few benchmarks: 2+2 seater 4196cc, V 8, 32 valves, 298 HP torque 411 Nm at 4100 rpm 6-speed automatic sequential shift acceleration 0-100 kph in 6,3 secs top speed 250 kph (lim.) fuel (comb.) 11,3 litres There you may also design an XK to your own specifications, so that you get the exact picture of the selected...

herbb 25.08.2007 (24.08.2009) · Read review
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My Year 2000 VW Golf IV 2.8 V6 4Motion

Advantages: Powerful, Understated, Comfortable, Four Wheel Drive, Climate Control
Disadvantages: Costly to run, complex to maintain

...I want to say something before I start the review proper. I bought this car 8 months ago and I love it, I never thought a family type saloon could be so much fun to drive. Right now we've got that out of the way I do want to add a message of caution. Due to this car being so 'clever' utilising ESP technology, 4x4 and all kinds of smart computing it can be somewhat complicated to maintain. I'll give you an example, in the second month of owning the car I got two warning lights on the dash. No problem I thought, I'll take it to the dealership and they'll plug in their laptop and find the problem. This is exactly what they did to fix the bi-lateral sensor problem that had the ESP light permanently switched on, however FOUR trips later they eventually managed to sort out the other light (and I'm still not that clear on what they did...

mallamaloo 09.11.2005 · Read review
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