Can't seem to rotate that. Hmm.

Surely that's a tilted camera!

They'd have had to spend a long time counter-tilting the trees in the background to look vertical.

Off-road cars be hardcore, yo.

:D one must cook ones rolls Royce v8 on a low simmer for 6 hours (or untill tender) before removing the liners to avoid damaging the fragile block

Nice. Get two more of those tyres for the back

Actually, in seriousness, whip the ATs off the front and put them on the back. You will get better handling on the road and better grip off it.

More troubles with the Ka? Are you not getting tempted to chuck it in the bin and buy a new one - this one is only £395 with twelve months ticket on it.

Of course, the smart money would be spent here.

Trigger's Vroom!

No love for BMW or Merc?

I'd avoid S/RS Audis too, every one I've ever driven has been a fat, wallowy understeering mess.

Genuinely don't see the appeal.

I have no idea what Mercs are what, they all have those unintelligible strings of characters for their names and I can never tell which are supposed to be the fasts ones or the posh ones or anything else. On top of that, outside of AMG they all come across to me as being intolerably boring. (I could be wrong on that though.)

I'd avoid S/RS Audis too, every one I've ever driven has been a fat, wallowy understeering mess.

Genuinely don't see the appeal.

Also, as I understand it from the resident Audi-fan at work, the engines in the S4 are relatively unstressed, so as long as you don't knob around with them, they're capable of big mileages without too much fuss.

alternatively, a simple map download puts them in stupid territory. Chris Harris did a video on it.

https://youtu.be/2KfMY96v_Gc

Brakes certainly. Drivetrain maybe, but as a quattro it's probably quite stout.

And you'd hope a company like revo would account for that in standard maps - same as in the pre-LCI 535d normal tunes keep torque under 490 lbft because the transmission might grenade after that.

My boss had an S4 (B6 shape) and yes, it was quick (4.2 V8) but only in a straight line - I borrowed it for a couple of evenings and driving on the twisty roads to and from Jem's house was horrible, despite the quattro it felt horrifically unsafe and not planted at all compared to the Celica.

She has a 60-plate RS5 now and I'm not hugely impressed with that either.

Lolz. Stopped in rush hour traffic on main city thoroughfare in Bradford and the Ka overheats as the coolant has escaped in the form of steam. It hid my blushes well. I parked up on a side street and bought 5 litres of water after a 15 minute walk. I tipped it in and off we went again. More steam escapes but I got it home. I suspect a split hose of the thermostat housing has worked loose.

With your Celica you're talking about a rally bred 4WD car with legendary handling, so it's understandable that a big Audi is going to feel a lot different, maybe even unsafe, without actually being unsafe?

With the Celica, I can drive at 7/10ths on the road and have fun and feel completely planted - even in wet weather.

Having never driven an S4 I can't comment, so it's nice to hear a personal experience However, I do wonder if there's a difference between a car 'feeling' unsafe and actually being unsafe.

(The obvious example for me is the Scooby, which had an ability to stick the road that was borderline magical, so every car I've driven since then 'feels' unsafe even though it isn't. I've had the Type-R step out on me a couple of times now (where the Scooby would have stayed on rails) but it's controllable and manageable. With your Celica you're talking about a rally bred 4WD car with legendary handling, so it's understandable that a big Audi is going to feel a lot different, maybe even unsafe, without actually being unsafe? A mate of mine here had a GT-4 (generation before yours) and it was incredible on the back roads over here.)

That's the other thing with buying an S4 locally rather than bringing one over, the option to take it for a blast over the mountain on a test drive before I commit to buying, because it is possible that I won't like them so much after driving one.

The selection of cars at dealers over here is often shit, I swear to god we get the rubbish that dealers in the UK don't want to have to try and peddle. You really to have to keep your eyes open for the occasional gems that crop up, it's no coincidence that a lot of clued up folks source their cars personally from the UK.