Decision time

[Taka Mizutani]

Kent, I hate to say it, but if you're looking for a reliable commuter that
you can run with minimal maintenance, an Audi or VW is not really going to
do it. Especially if you aren't going to do the maintenance yourself.

You really should be looking for something more along the lines of a 4
cylinder, manual transmission Camry. There are a bunch of Camry taxis
running around Montreal with well over 500k km, original engine, no rebuild,
some on the original transmission. That's amazing.

Maintenance costs will be far lower than any Audi you're looking at. That's
why resale on something like a Camry is so much higher than on an Audi which
was a far more expensive car when new.

Taka


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:

> TooManyAudis at aol.com wrote:
> > What the hell has become of us?  A station wagon for fun??
>
> Would someone else with a chipped '91 200 20V Avant care to fill him in?
>
> I'll start.  Stock, it does 0-60 in about 6.6 seconds. Chipped, with
> a 2.5 bar transducer, it puts a silly grin on your face. On the highway
> in fourth with RPMs above 3000, floor it and traffic disappears behind
> you in a hurry.
>
> Add a suspension upgraded with Bilsteins and Eibachs, and a chipped
> 20v will make you do bad things.
>
> And the beast is approaching antiquity.
>
> --
> Kent McLean
> '99 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
> '91 200 TQA #3, gray, UFOs, chipped, Euro headlights
> '91 200 TQA #2 blue, up in smoke 2
> '91 200 TQA #1 black, recycled
> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody", sold
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke
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