I meant I just dropped a whopping stinky brain fart lol - I already knew it was for the US emissions but went down 'lower RON rating lane' for some reason...
ah I'm not chasing big power for competition or anything, just a mate of mine had an S4 which was an ex-demo car for MRC Tuning (google them - they can do insane stuff with pretty much all of the top end VAG cars). His was around 500bhp... easily the fastest vehicle I've ever been in but you have to experience it to see what all the fuss is about. I'm not after the same thing but I fancy a re-map for mine since it's probably the least invasive of all the tuning procedures, and against my better judgement I do actually buy into the idea that it'll improve economy on motorway runs. (Peak torque being cracked up and moved further up the rev range, cruising at a constant speed on the motorway will still be at the same RPM but lower down the powerband in relation to the state of tune it's in - if any of that makes sense? lol)
I'd love one of the 4.2 v8's (b6 series) but it'd be thirstier than the 2.7 turbo (b5), the latest version (the b7) is a 3.0 v6 turbo and seems like the best compromise but they're prolly still hovering around the £30-40k mark lol..
Plus I like the fact mine looks like a common garden saloon car with nothing special to note... It's properly juvenile but there's a strange satisfaction to watching the chav'd up corsa behind you disappear when they thought you were 'just another a4'
