[s-cars] RE: New or nearly-new car purchase

[TM]

When considering an Audi with a 2.7T engine, is anyone really concerned
about the fact that if you blow a turbo, you have to pull the engine to
get to it and the associated costs are over $2k?

I know that the Subaru WRX isn't that hard to service. The Evo is
probably
no worse than my old Eagle Talon TSi AWD. The Porsche Boxster is
impossible
to service w/o a lift, the BMWs simply get expensive to service.
However, I
think the Audi takes the cake in terms of massive cost if something goes
wrong. That is the major reason that S4tts scare me, along with the
strong
possibility that any S4tt for sale now is thrashed.

Taka

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Frank [mailto:tfrank at symyx.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:55 AM
To: TM; Calvin & Diana Craig; Joseph Pizzimenti; Brady Moffatt;
s-car-list at audifans.com; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: New or nearly-new car purchase



Stock they are probably a good match, an STI and an S4tt, modified they
are still a good match.  If the one S4tt that ran in the OTC and is
running in the One Lap of America right now is any indication then the
STI's fall a bit short.  Heck we even beat the STI, may be more an
indicator of the drivers though because they had some insane cornering
speeds.  For some reason the EVO's are world beaters, may just be the
state of who is tuning and who is putting big $$ in to the cars, 5 evo's
at OTC and one STI.  At the OTC all the money was being spent on the
Evo's, of course only one made it to the end with the original motor, 2
dropped out on mechanicals and 1 crashed. 


To see some crazy car's take a look at www.onelapofamerica.com  it is
going on right now.  It is a descent indicator of what is going on with
highly modified street cars and how they stack up against each other,
same with the OTC www.opentrackchallenge.com .