Vehicle Change for the new year?

[Scott Gilman]

Happy New Year to all the forum members!  We just returned from  
southern VT where we'll be moving later in the year.  Our '91 200 20V  
ran great on the trip, but I was thinking that with a job change and  
the significant territory I'll have to cover, the 200 may not be the  
right vehicle for me.  Now it looks like I'll be driving 30K plus  
miles a year for work and I'm having second thoughts about the cost of  
maintaining this car with so many miles a year.   It would be  
difficult to part with the 200 since I've had it since new and I've  
kept it very well maintained.  I've got all receipts from all the  
maintenance/repairs so the file is thick enough to choke a horse-so  
I'm well aware what it takes to maintain the car.  I've never added up  
the costs because it would be depressing.  Unlike many of you on the  
list, I am not a wrencher and I'm not likely to have the time to learn  
with my new work commitments.   The '91 has 130K so it's a relatively  
low mileage car and I'm confident that it would be good for 300K plus  
based on what I've seen other well cared for Audis get.  However,  
these cars are expensive to maintain for the non-wrenchers.  We're not  
in a position to keep an extra car around so the Audi becomes my high  
mileage commuter or finds another home. I've been thinking of a new  
Subaru Forester, it's AWD, runs on 87 octane, gets decent gas mileage  
and would be pretty practical-maybe that's why there are so many  
Subarus in VT.
Scott
NYC