[s-cars] Re: 2006-7 RS4 >>> used Audi's

[William Noland]

Pleeeeeeeaaasse Audi, import a neu RS4 Avant, the ultimate Q ship. 
Quickly! I figure, after four years, the lease returns will start 
popping up at the local stealer and maybe, just maybe, the price will be 
reachable.

One very good sign IMO, is that this RS4 is coming out near the start of 
the new model run. The others have been at the end of the model life 
cycle. Hoping that this means that they'll make several thousand of 
them, which should help drop the used car prices a bit.

Too much good stuff on this car to simply RS4-ize the B6 S4. An 8,250 
rpm V8 -- oops, just wet myself, I think. Kinda makes those little neck 
hairs stand up straight. Enough to make me ignore that gaping homker of 
a front end.

Bill Noland
wanna make an RS4 our S4

>I think all us cheapwads here are sitting back, grinning, patiently
>doing the same.  Let some other sucker take that HUGE "Audiesque"
>depreciation hit from hell and scoop us up a bargain once she's 7 years
>old or so.  Heck I'll be in the market about that time, awesome.
>
>(Begin rant) HOWEVER...  gotta state the painful truth hear.  The
>thought of having one of 'those' cars @ 7 years old frightens the
>BEEJEEZUS out of me.  All them systems, all that complication, all that
>room for eventual guaranteed failure...  all that room to never be able
>to afford to be slave to maintaining one of those.  
>
>What is repairing the RS6s electromagneticnuclearific suspension gonna
>run?  That's just the first example of runforthehills that comes to
>mind.  Better have a damn good extended warranty, my guess.
>
>This is a sadder fact when you couple AoA's recent disregard /
>alienation of it's used car public.  Turning one's backs on problems
>doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about owning one of those things in
>their 'glory years' no.
>
>Call me paranoid.  Mefears my doomfilled prognastications will prove
>destiny.  Prove me wrong, Audi.
>
>Orrrrrrrrrr just be like Pasqualoni and Noland and others here and just
>go out and get yerself a new B6 //S4 heh heh.  Not much yet been
>discussed about those here...  buncha miles in Jim's Sat. was a near
>religious experience.  That car is telepathically addictive, does
>basically everything right.  Nothing too right, but nothing wrong
>either, verrrrrry easy to exploit.  While my Mihnea'd UrS hits harder
>and the punch is more satisfying, that frickin B6 //S Avant is a
>verrrrrrrrrrrry enticing package.  All the bases are covered, and
>covered very, very, very frickin well (unlike B5).  Kudos Audi, kudos
>indeed.  
>
>Just make her hold up in 7-10 down the road 8-)...
>
>(End rant)
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