Rubber Meeting the Road.(Audi A4 quattros.)

Byline: Kevin A. Wilson Last year around this time, with a gathering winter storm evident out the windows of our offices here in Detroit, I grabbed the keys to an Audi A4 quattro, smugly assuming I had the hot ticket for the sleigh ride home. It was, and is, a fine machine, but this one was particularly ill-equipped for the mission.

Like many sport sedans of late, the standard equipment included high-performance tires. Dry-weather ultrahigh-performance tires, to be specific. The all-wheel drive distributed the torque equitably enough at first that I didn't really catch on to my ...

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