Audi vs. Subaru sales

[Peter A. Sperry]

I would have to agree that the new Audis are gorgeous (don't have one cause
I don't like car payments).
But with the old ones, it's kind of fun guessing what will go wrong next.
Gives a car personality.  My wife and I now have a little game that we do
where we tell stories about where we'll get stranded and because of what.
(Actually, though, only once has my car left me high and dry - alternator!)
I had an '87 VW Jetta, though,  with 287,000 on it, and my girlfriend and I
would make dates out of going to the junk yard.

Peter

'88 5KSQ

-----Original Message-----
From:	quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Ti Kan
Sent:	Monday, November 06, 2000 12:26 PM
To:	Brian Sullivan
Cc:	Quattro List
Subject:	Re: Audi vs. Subaru sales

Brian Sullivan writes:
> Yes, Audis are fun to drive, but it doesn't mean they couldn't clean up
> their act in terms the things Andrew mentioned. Enjoying a particular
brand
> doesn't mean you can't hope for better engineering.

VW and Audi has been making great strides at improving their products
over the years.  Many people on this list are comparing their experiences
with 10+ or so year old VW/Audi to the modern offerings from other
companies and I don't think that's fair.  I own the gamut of Audis from
80s to present and I have a unique perspective on this.  Current Audis are
really beautifully designed, engineered and built.  They take a backseat to
no other in terms of performance, style, quality or reliability.  I wrote
a retrospective on my departing A4q recently, which is a shining example of
excellence.  As much as I LOVE my older Audis (and those old Audis are
staying with me), they cannot match the modern A4 when it comes to the
quality/reliability factors.  The A4 needed no more than routine maintenance
and basically nothing broke over my 4.5 years of ownership.

-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo (coming)
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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