[s-cars] V8 vs A8

[JC]

Agree completely and I would say with VAG-COM in hand there's nothing at all
to be fraid of in a newer car. C5/B5 and later cars aren't crazy engineering
anyway... yeah so you lose the dizzy and get a modern injection system
(really a good thing for daily-driving maintenance purposes).  Sure you
gotta learn some new 'common faults and issues' but that'll be true of any
car. Actually some things are tidyier and getting the diagnostics out of
VAG-COM is actually a bonus vs. the old cars with limited blink codes.  IMO,
the myth of 'new cars are too complicated to work on' is exactly that, a
myth. Just need to learn a few new things and keep the computer handy.

Re: your choices, personally I'm not a huge fan of the C5 interior or
driving characteristics so much though (had a '98 A6 2.8 30v with a PES
blower on it for years).  Mine had mystery 'nobody can fix it' road/wind
noise issues, the stock seats are soft and saggy (not just vs. UrS but also
other older base seats), plastic seems shoddy and wears poorly, no driver
feedback/feel... Lots of things that actually had me preferring the old
200TQA I also had at the time for anything but long roadtrips. And in large
part why I'm still driving a 14 year old car now...

However I do like the overall A4 family as well as C6 cars... and A4 Avants
you can get with manuals...

>
> BTW, with any of the newer cars, I highly recommend getting
> VAG-COM so you can diagnose the car properly.
>
> Taka
>


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