Last night, my cousin and I were on our way to NYC and ran into a yellow s2k just of the exit from rt23 to 287. The driver in s2000 definately from the looks was 20+ in age. His top was down and slowly passed us at about 60 mph. I told my cousin to speed up and get next to s2k, which he did. We stayed next to each other for good 1-2 minutes hoping for him to notice us and make a move and he did by downshiftig to 2nd or 3rd ? and took off. He did get about 1 carlength jump on us before my cousin got on to it. We went all the way to 120 before he shut down. The results were quite surprising for me as I didn't expect our car to do so well on the top. By the time he shut down the front bumper of our car was almost by his front wheel (3/4 car gain mainly when the guy shifted). I gave a huge thumbs up to the guy, he noded and ended up taking up the exit for rt9. If the guy is on this forum, I just wanna give him My cousin's car is 100% bone stock 01 S4. He is thinking of getting a chip after last night's encounter I very impressed with s2k and s4's top end power. I thought it was very unusual for all awd to have such a good top end. My gsx fells kinda slugish over 110 Anyway awsome run

 

Just one correction, the whole incident occured on rt 80 not 287. Got them mixed up Just wanna clear this before I get flamed for this.

 

Is the S4 tip or 6-speed?

Nice race Speed of both cars are very similar..I think S2k is bit faster though. Haven't seen a Stock S4 do 13.66 yet

 

Interesting. I was able to put 3 car lengths on an S4 wagon from 20 to 90 (started one length back and ended one up) each car with one passenger. Granted my top was up, but I didn't realize there was a huge weight differential between the S4 sedan and wagon. Maybe the wagon was a Tip?

Jimbo

 

This makes a big difference as speed increases. Drag increases as a function of the square of airspeed...in other words drag increases really quickly. The S2000 has a much lower drag coefficient with the top up than when the top is down.

 

Like I said, I was surprised too.. I expected s2k to pull on the top since s4 had an extra passenger ( me ). But always remember that driver plays a big role too. Oh yeah the s4 is M6

 

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This makes a big difference as speed increases.

 

btw, i like the s4's. i need a second car, especially since it's an AWD and has a bit more space. also, my doggie is not allowed in the S unless accompanied by her "mommy" (too much leather and so little space...damn claws!).