Road trip: Ottawa, Montreal... Now THIS Is what a Stage 3 S4 was born to do. (xpost)
 

With no work, no real place to go, and a car that's just hungry to eat up to highway miles, a summer road trip was the only logical thing to do. I recently put K04s and fueling into the thing, so I've been dying to test out its long haul road worthiness on a trip like this.

Though I don't really have plans on how far, or how long, I think by the end of it, I'll have covered over 2000 miles.

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Jul 7, 2008; Montreal, QC, CAN; Doing laps of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, home of the Formula 1 Canadian GP.

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Jul 7, 2008; Montreal, QC, CAN; You get used to the speed of a Stage 3 really fast. But one of the best things about owning one is the "holy ****" face other people have when they get a chance to drive it.

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Jul 7, 2008; Montreal, QC, CAN; Doing laps of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, home of the Formula 1 Canadian GP.

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Jul 7, 2008; Montreal, QC, CAN; Doing laps of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, home of the Formula 1 Canadian GP.

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Jul 9, 2008; Stittsville, ON, CAN; Someone once told me that BBS stood for "Better Be Shiny". And so it shall.

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Jul 9, 2008; Stittsville, ON, CAN; That's a welfare Mercedes Benz C300 on the left that's kinda hot looking... But then you see it beside real understated elegance and you say, "Umm, yeah. I'll take the blue one, thanks." :P Hard to imagine how well the B5 design is still holding up today--13 years later.

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Jul 10, 2008; Kanata, ON, CAN; Observe the Audi S4 in its natural habitat... Sucking down $85 fillups of 94 octane. :( At least it's not a V8.

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Jul 10, 2008; Kanata, ON, CAN; Planning a 350 km drive. Just for the sake of driving.

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Jul 10, 2008; Calabogie, ON, CAN; The sign says, "Twisty stuff, 17 km." I say, "Hell yeah!"

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Jul 10, 2008; Calabogie, ON, CAN; No cottages, no boats, no annoying kids on jet skis. Just a whole lot of uncatalyzed exhaust fumes. :D

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Jul 10, 2008; Carleton Place, ON, CAN; The car contemplates going for a swim in Mississippi Lake.

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Jul 10, 2008; Carleton Place, ON, CAN; I needed at least one photo of myself. And yes, those are original Oakley Frogskins from 1990.

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Jul 10, 2008; Perth, ON, CAN; 15 tonnes. That sounds about right for the S4.

More to come soon.

Next week: Quebec City, New Brunswick, PEI. Maybe Halifax and Cape Breton, too.

Are those original Oakley Frogskins from 1990?
 

Cool trip, sounds like a lot of fun.

Great pictures! You should be a photographer!

cool, howd you get on the track?

Nice. What kind of camera? Pics turned out well.

and what lens?

Nice pics dude! And I really like the shot next to the C300 - I totally agree!

The track is open to the public when there are no races going on.
 

When I lived in Montreal, I went cycling there all the time. There's a posted speed limit of 30 km/h around the track. With the amount of security cameras and cops around, you won't be able to get away with much, but you can try. :D

sounds like fun. no helmet?

I like the license plate, though it's undefined in both ASCII and EBCIDIC so I'm stumped...
 

Great pictures!