Ray,

It ain't about the car. What you are seeing locally is a top driver in a top car. Look what happened at the test day when Eric got in his dad's Volvo...it's a combination of the two. IIRC, you guys have never even been to the dyno with your Audi's. Is that still true?

At the MOST, the Golf III is 50lbs light...and that is if you don't think a beam rear axle is worse than an independent rear. Remember, the process assumes the base car is a RWD, strut-based, inderpendent suspension'd car. Adders and subtractors from there...the two most common being 'minus' for FWD and 'plus' for double wishbone.