[s-cars] Dreaming of more than Thankgiving turkey

[Mark Strangways]

After all this chatter about new cars and a previous link to an Audi site, I 
know have a serious problem.
I have my checkbook and I am heading down to the Audi dealer to put my 
deposit down on an R8.

Please stop me, I think I am in love. Tell me not to buy a first gen Audi. 
Tell me that it will be expensive to maintain.... Tell me, please, why I 
should not loose my drivers license with this car.

The R8, imho , has to be the freaking best Audi I have yet to see. Ok my 93 
CAD S4 is sweet, but that car is bloody amazing. Would be better if it had 
the V10, but we can't have everything.

So what am I to do... $25,000 down, $1200 per month for short term lease. 
And then give it back.
Can I give it back, I will want to keep it.

Such problems, such decisions. HELP :-)

I am seriously tempted I have to say.

Looking for list support.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taka Mizutani" <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
To: <djdawson2 at aol.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Dreaming of more than Thankgiving turkey


> Dave-
> The Bang and Olufsen stereo is something like a $6.5k upgrade. Seriously
> good stereo system, was reviewed as "best OEM car stereo" by one of the 
> car
> mags recently and I've heard secondhand that it lives up to the hype.
>
> The standard stereo is "no highs, no lows, Blowse," which actually isn't 
> all
> that bad in the latest models.
>
> The tweeters come out of the dash like little alloy capsules, it's cool. 
> :-)
>
> Too bad Audi doesn't offer even a DSG option with this car- a manual
> transmission would make this a serious sports sedan, like the M5.
> I guess they want to make a big orient express type cruiser, like the big
> Mercs.
>
> Lexus LS460 w/ TOM'S hardware upgrades (exhaust, air suspension
> recalibration, etc.) would be my choice in a slushbox cruiser- serious
> brakes, serious engine finally and it parks itself. :-) Oh, and $20-30k 
> less
> money.
>
> Taka
>
>
> On 11/23/06, djdawson2 at aol.com <djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> I noticed within the text of the add, that it referred to a Bang and
>> Olufsen stereo.  You don't suppose that after what, 20 years, of 
>> installing
>> painfully unreliable Blowz components into Audis... that someone at HQ 
>> said
>> "hey, I've been hearing bad things about the Bose stereos."
>>
>> If this is the case... it's about time.  Geese... I still own stereo
>> components I owned in college (20 years ago) and they still work fine.
>>
>> Anyway... nice car.
>>
>> Dave
>>
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