All This Talk About Allroad, S4, A6 etc...

[Grant Lenahan]

Reputation for high repair costs....
no personal experience.
Some tranny failures.

Grant
On May 10, 2007, at 10:30 AM, mkb wrote:

> Made me start thinking.  I'm probably coming up for an upgrade to my 
> trusty old A4 18tqa.  Got about 135K miles on it now and I'll probably 
> pass it along to my daughter in about six months when she gets ready 
> to drive which means that I should start looking for something for 
> myself.
>
> So I flip over to AutoTrader.com just to check out some prices.  To my 
> pleasent surprise I'm seeing quite a few A8's in the 90K to 110K 
> mileage range with price tags in the mid to upper $7k from 1997 to 
> 1998.  Not bad for a luxo barge with a 300HP V8, fulltime AWD that 
> cost close to $70k new.  Heck, I could buy a good example on CC and 
> still have change left over for  t-belt and transmission service 
> parts.
>
> If you compare the price of a used A6 to that of an A8 around the same 
> years, they are fairly close.  So, why not buy an A8?
>
> Anyway, that's the plan.  Lets see if it pans out.
>
> --
> mohammed
> 97 a4 18tqa
>
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