[s-cars] Ownership dwindling?

[Mike Miller]

As one of the "old folks" (61) (not quite as old as Dave :-) I hear ya 
on the insurance issue!

My UrS6 is maybe 30% more than my 91 200q was - but the '01 A6 4.2 is 
about 60% more than the UrS6! A tad over $1k/yr for the A6 and I have a 
clean driving record. The UrS6 and a 2000 F350 are about the same.

I figure it averages out to around $200/mo to keep an older Audi on the 
road. This list and the forums are invaluable both in finding cars for 
sale and for keeping them going!

--mike in montana (where insurance is expensive!)


On 8/18/2013 4:27 PM, Alex Witham wrote:
> I don't drive mine much any more mostly because I now have access to a myriad of new or almost new cars that spoil me with all the modern technology these old S-cars don't have not to mention far better handling, fuel economy, lower insurance rates (has anyone else noticed that Ur S-cars are seriously expensive to insure), more rigid chassis, and better safety features.
>
> I still love the turbo power delivery and the classic simple good looks. I'd probably drive it a bit more if I could get the suspension sorted out a bit (it has the 2Bennett set up and bangs terribly over expansion joints, speed bumps, or road imperfections), but I neither have the time nor the money to mess with it. With just over 150k on the odometer, of the 3 Ur S-cars I've had this is by far the least reliable and the only one I've ever owned that has had engine issues as well as oil leaks.
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> With that being said, it's the best looking one I've owned and has the best paint job of the three (this one is pearl and the others were silver and green both of which were a disaster paint wise). I still like the fact that it's a sleeper and that every once in a while I encounter someone who gets very excited about it, but it doesn't drive like an older car (say something without power steering with a lot of character) that would give it personality yet doesn't feel like a modern car so it's sort of lost in no man's land.
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> I don't really have any plans to sell it as it's not worth much and is still a lot of fun when it snows. I have two sets of wheels and tires yet keep the winter set on year round. Haha.
>
> You might like to know that I bought my first Ur S-car at 23, my second one at 28, and the most recent one 4 years ago at 33. You might also like to now that it's almost always exclusively guys younger than me that comment on the car and seem really excited about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
>
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:11 AM, David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Paul: I have made the same observation about less and less traffic on s-cars. The ownership here tends to be
>> older, e.g. older than 40 and probably a lot older than 50. So many of us (I'm now 62) have either moved on
>> to other cars (my DD is a 98 C4 A6 avant) and/or the UrS is now mostly in the garage and therefore doesn't
>> break as often. (I used to drive mine a few times a week to work but since I retired in 2010, sometimes it is
>> weeks between drives (especially in the winter)). I am trying to drive it more this summer but sometimes it
>> is just easier to take the avant to the Home Depot/Lowes/RONA to pick up project supplies, especiall 2 x 4s
>> and 2' x 8' blue foam board.
>>
>> As for other forums, there are quite a few s-car-list folks who also used to post on Audiworld UrS (at least
>> until March 17, 2009 when quattroworld came into play).  Most Audiworld posters (including the s-car-listers)
>> moved to quattroworld where an active UrS community exists. I like it there because of the ability to post
>> photos in the posts makes writing up info posts or DIYs much easier.
>>
>> I still visit Audiworld and the s-car-list daily (or every second day) to see if there is anything new that I
>> can contribute to. Sometimes there is nothing.
>>
>> The other UrS forum that I am active on is the S2Forum out of the UK. There are quite a few C4 UrS owners there.
>> While many of the members are sub-40, there are a few old geezers like me there too. Even Hap shows up there with
>> his Monstah project photos. ;>)
>>
>> Dave F. (aka "UrS4boy") (Hap is UrS4guy)
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