On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:27:24 +0200, Sander deWaal
wrote:

Lionel said:

Yes it was a turbo one.
I guess that the engine was a 2 liters, and your one is a 2.5.

The Turbo comes in two flavors, the Turbo 1 and, obviously, the Turbo
2.
The main fifference is that the 2 has an intercooler.
The Turbo engines are based on the 2,5 litre models.
A turbo 2 in good condition is capable of 230 km/h........WOW!!!

I just remember the long straight parts of highway between Metz and Dijon. I
think I wouldn't be able to do that again.

That age thing again? :-)

A couple of years ago, I made the Muenchen to Amsterdam trip in 12
hours. (I got caught in traffic). I did it in an Audi A2. It was a
grind.

Just in the last two weeks, I've done Nashville to Memphis/Oxford, MS
3 times (from Monday to Sunday last week). That's 1600 miles (twice
was to Oxford and once to Memphis). On Friday, I make the trip one
more time. But it's only to Memphis, which is only 200 miles, not 300.
But that means I hit 2000 miles. Cool. I'll admit that I was a bi
burned out midweek, with two back-to-back trips a day apart...

I've definitely spent some miles on the road over the years. In my
time as sales rep in Germany, I put on about 100,000 km of quality
autobahn time. Most of it was in a 2.0 ltr. Omega, which was pretty
comfortable. I once made Heidelburg to Bremerhaven in a little over 3
hours. That's 650 km, if I remember correctly. The last weekend of the
summer factory vacations in August, I made the same trip in about 10
hours. It was back to back cars from Frankfurt all the way to Hanover.
Sucked.