Why are 200 20v's worthless

[Dan Forbing]

Listers,
 
Yep, these cars aren't worth much but the durability and performance has made 7 years of ownership one big grin for the most part.  
I think hard but not long as I look at my jack stand mounted sedan. As soon as the used tranny gets here, the road will beckon once again.
 
Regards,
Dan Forbing

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Jeff Redig <birdmanmt at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jeff Redig <birdmanmt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re:Why are 200 20v's worthless
To: 200q20v at audifans.com
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 9:47 AM

I'll chime in a little bit, i'm currently someone selling my 200.  I
commute
25-30 miles one way per day.  A lot of times that ends up being stop and go
traffic between 20 and 50mph.  This wagon in those conditions usually gets
about 18.5mpg.  In liquidating my supply of parts/spares/goodies and selling
the car I can come up with $6k+ in cash to put towards a TDI.  I borrowed my
brother's TDI for the same commute for a few weeks and was averaging
49.2mpg.  The $300/month in gas is a killer when combined with the
maintenance headaches that t44's induce.  I can't afford to spend 5
hours,
two nights per week working on old broken crap just to get to work the next
day.  There's more to life than that, IMO.  The TDI will cost about
$75/month for the same driving, I can't afford not to do that, especially
with grand schemes of a track car in the future sometime.  I'll save over
$200 per month by switching and get a 10 year newer car, that sounds pretty
good to me.

Cheers
Jeff
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