[s-cars] Next car. Where to go from URS4?

[Eric Sanborn]

I had a 4000q with turbo and wanted a 95.5 S6 Avant as my next.  At the
time I couldn't find on in my price range so I ended up with a C4 A6 Avant
that I had for a while (too slow).  I finally landed in a 2001 Allroad with
6-spd.  It took about 18 months to find.  It is super nice, but the
suspension is awesome while at the same time trying since it I have had to
work on it quite a bit.  With Bilstein shocks it drive nicely, but is still
likely quite a bit softer than you are used to.  It is as far as I know the
one of the only ways to get a stick in the newer big body cars.  Of course
it is 12 years old now so it doesn't buy you much newer.

With the APR chip that the previous owner had installed it does make a
little north of 300 hp, but the real fun is the over 350 ft-lbs of torque
before 2000 rpm.  In the winter our favorite feature however is the heated
steering wheel.  Funny how you get softer with age.  My first car didn't
even have functioning heat let alone heated seats or steering wheel.

-Eric


On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:56 AM, JR <audiurs4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still like my URS4, but at 20 years old, I'm thinking of getting
> something newer.  The newer S4 models look nice, but I pride myself in the
> fact that I haven't taken my URS4 to the stealership or anyplace else in
> the 10 years I've owned it.  I've fixed anything that went wrong myself.
>  The newer S4 models do not appear to be anywhere near as easy to work on.
>  That seems to be the case for just about every car newer than the URS4
> though.  For those of you who move on from your URS4 to a newer car, what
> did you going with and why?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JR
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