Actually, this does remind me of something. My 8V is no S3, but a guy in a mercedes was next to me at the lights, we were waiting to join the A43 and he absolutely gunned it off, I forget which Merc it was, but it was something like a B class, it still went off quite fast, by which time I was in 2nd gear, and had pulled off completely normal, me and my mate looked at each other, he said "you're not going to take that are you?" to which I put my foot down and within seconds completely shot past him, I looked and I was doing 80 - i'm so impressed with this engine, my mate can't get round that it's only a 1.4, neither can I!