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DUNDAS
EXPERIENCING A QUATTRO & QUATREFOIL ON THE SAME AFTERNOON BY CHRIS TIESSEN The moment I press the start button, I know
have looked up from their work. A small group
we are in for a treat. As the car announces it’s
of customers are also quizzically gazing our
ready to go – growling, then settling down –
way. Some with obvious irritation. Others
Gary Crosby gives us these parting words: ‘Be
with expectant grins. I overhear one of them
careful with this one. She’s a little monster.’ I
remark: ‘Must be his first Audi.’
tap on the gas just a smidgeon. The response is thunderous. Lusty. Insistent. Vehement. I give it another tap, unleashing a crescendo of snarling and bellowing out the twin tailpipes. ‘I could do this all day,’ I shout to TOQUE Partner Cai Sepulis, my passenger on this adventure. ‘We should probably just get going,’ she replies with a chuckle, adding, with just a hint of admonishment, ‘I think we’re being a bit disruptive.’ Taking my eye off the tachometer, I survey the pristine car bay and note that a number of mechanics
Indeed, it is. An RS3. In Nardo Grey. With 400 horsepower. ‘It’ll go O to 100 in 3.9 seconds,’ I tell Cai as we exit the bay at Audi Kitchener-Waterloo. ‘About as fast as a Ferrari F40,’ I hear myself telling her, recalling a favourite hypercar from my youth. ‘And they’ve given it to us for the day,’ I add – in amazement. Not for simply horsing around, mind you. But for business; namely, the business of fine dining. At the highly-exalted Quatrefoil Restaurant in the small town of Dundas – another culinary
