Originally Posted by XethW
OK TT owners and supporters...yesterday I was driving home from work (here in Chandler, AZ) and stopped to get something to eat. There was a gray TT with the liscence plate "TTOO HOTT", a 1.8T engine (I think the 1.8T has two different HP ratings - I don't know which one this was). The guy saw my car and waved, and I waved back, and then he pointed at the road, asking "wanna' go?" I nodded, and we pulled out onto Arizona ave and raced from a stoplight to the intersection of I-10 - about 2.5 miles. I don't know how his car was set up - mine is a completely stock (no chip, no fancy air filters, no nothing) autostick, and I don't have a lot of experience racing - I guess you could say I'm a regular driver who knows how to jump his car off the line. This race was not close - my crossfire took him off the line with ease, and I got to the intersection several car lengths in front of him.
nice....but i'm a 100% sure what you raced was a FWD Auto 180hp version. The turbos combined with a manual transmission and 225hp are very quick launchers. In fact the strongest section of the TT's performance off the line is the launch....AWD and the turbo kick do it. Most TT drivers who will challenge someone to a "race" will launch at 3000RPM and not much can get as good of a launch as that....
if you said you caught up with him in the latter section of the race, then i wouldn't be so sure....but the fact that you said you were ahead of him from the get go makes me positive you took on an Auto 180.
cheers