[V8] Another V8 5-Speed e-Bay / the one on AutoTrader

[John Karasaki]

Jeremy,

A minor point of clarification:  I believe you will find that only MC or 
3B/AAN converted urqs are selling consistently for $15k-$30k.  "Regular" 
examples of those cars sell for $3k-$5k, with very well maintained ones 
from $5k to $10k.

The Quattro quarterly will always have a few people asking big money for 
Audis.  Asking is typically not receiving, however.

The price is low for the V8 5-speeds because the supply exceeds the 
demand.  With little effort, you can always find one for sale somewhere in 
the US.  We aren't in the 1990's anymore where to some (alot of) people 
buying a $10k car took as much thought at a $1 candy bar.

The ur-S4/6s are more popular because you can get more performance out of 
them... way more performance!  They also are nicer cars (better headlights, 
glass sun roof, better seats, more aggressive rear end, etc.).

Audi isn't alone.  BMW has a similar problem with the 7 series cars.

John

P.S.  That $1500 urq you mentioned was probably the one that I passed on as 
well.  How big of an idiot am I?  Huge!  The one I'm thinking was a 
Portland car with around 145k, the under hood fuse box and red.  In my 
defense, I had my urq and had just gotten my Miata as well as our 
Rallycross 4kq.  I really didn't want a divorce!


At 03:53 PM 2/24/04 -0800, Jeremy Ward wrote:
>Pretty sad when $4900 is the highest someone is willing to pay for a 5
>speed...  What does that say about V8s in general right now?
>
>I understand that there were 155 5-spds imported into the States...
>Does that number sound accurate?  All of them as 1991 models (well
>except for Bill's, right?).
>
>That is WAY fewer than the URQ (900 some odd?) and they go for between
>$15k and $30k...
>
>How many UrS4 and UrS6 were brought in?  Over 3 thousand combined?  They
>go for $11k and $17k respectively...  Why?
>
>There was a time when I passed on a URQ for $1500...  Will our V8s
>(especially the 5 speeds) ever take off in price?  Is this just a sign
>of our economy and the 0% interest on new vehicles?
>
>Puzzled...
>
>On another note, I called the local dealer on the 5 speed in Portland
>(the one with 59k miles in auto trader for $12k)...  Mileage is legit.
>The furthest back record the service manager had was from 37k miles (not
>sure if that is when they started taking it to the dealer, or just due
>to the limited (time) information they keep in their system...)  Sounds
>like the only things that were listed were oil changes, and radio
>'concerns' as he put it (I am assuming he was talking about the Bose
>recall...)  Timing belt, water pump, etc has not been done (at least not
>by the dealership).
>
>I noticed in the pictures on Auto Trader, the car is wearing a different
>front license plate in some of the pictures.  A friend also pointed out
>that it looks like the driver's front fender has been repainted.
>
>I left a voicemail for the owner and am waiting for him to return my
>call to get some more info...  It is only a few miles away from me, so I
>would be happy to go check it out for anyone that is interested. :-)
>
>Regards,
>
>- Jeremy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: FredParkerJr [mailto:FredParkerJr at cox.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:12 PM
>To: v8 at audifans.com
>Subject: RE: [V8] Another V8 5-Speed e-Bay
>
>
>I went to look at it today - contact directly if you want to chat about
>it.
>
>I am still up in the air on the buying the car personally.  The auction
>ended while I was on the ride home and I noticed that it didn't hit the
>reserve.
>
>Fred
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