[s-cars] Re: Newly adopted A8

[William Noland]

The A8 has always suffered low sales numbers and the used car market
reflects that. When the unwashed masses made a buck or two in the dot
com boom, they headed for the WMB, Merc, Lexus, etc. dealer, so they
could let the world know that they arrived.  :-)

Same fate befell the original Infiniti Q45. It was a fairly decent
luxo-cruiser that leaned a bit in the sporting direction. They couldn't
give them away in the used car market.
Not necessarily a bad thing, if you're in the market for a large ride.

I think the neu A8 will do much better. It's already getting very good
press. Paul Frere's article in the new R&T (or is it Car and Driveway?)
is subtitled "World's Best Luxury Sedan?", or something to that effect.
I've been seeing lots and lots of new A6's on the road here in the SF
Bay Area, so there seem to be lots of new Audi converts out there.

Now, if only used S8 prices will start to tank............

Bill Noland
in search of the ultimate fat cat ride

>Hold the phone. You walk into the Audi dealer in 2000 and pay $60 large for a car, plus taxes (in my neck of the woods, almost another $5 large) license and so forth and two years and 23K miles later, you get $24.5 large for it. OUCH! Is Audi's flagship really depreciating at that rate?  Very hard car to buy new, but then what an amazing used car.
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