2004 Audi S4 Review

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Review:

Cars that announce their thrilling performance with wings, spoilers, stripes and neon undercarriage lighting have their place. Mostly that place is in the fantasies of eighth-grade boys, but it's a place. There isn't an eighth-grader on Earth who'll draw anything that looks like the new Audi S4 Cabriolet in his study-hall notebook.

It's hard to think how Audi could have made this S4 Cabriolet more staid. Maybe they could have painted the side-view mirrors black instead of finishing them in aluminum? But there really isn't any other ornamentation to dull down or remove. The S4 styling is affectation-free; a Listerine bottle laid down on its side and put on four wheels.

But the driving experience is anything but antiseptic.